Back to Glenorchy

The weather yesterday was spectacular, so we headed back up the lake towards Glenorchy to do a couple of short hikes and generally pass the day in the beautiful little town. One of our walks was along the Glenorchy Track which goes for a mile or so from the township around a wetland near the Dart River. Quite scenic as you can see. As is frequently the case in this area, the marshes were a film venue for LOTR - it was the area that Frodo, Sam & Smeagle traversed on the way to Mordor (it's where they see the dead bodies in the marshes, Frodo falls in, they hide from the Nazgul, etc.).

Here are a few more pictures of another of our favorite places in NZ.



A nice place for lunch


We had originally planned to spend the last 12 days of the trip in Te Anau, but we're liking Queenstown so much that we've decided to cut our stay there a little short - just a week - then come back up here for the last 5 days.

We depart on Sunday the 8th to Te Anau, returning here on the 15th.