Beautiful Queenstown (by Joe)

We're both smitten with a beautiful lakeside resort called Queenstown (just down the road from Kingston, funnily enough) in the southern Alps region of South Island, New Zealand.

In the winter months Queenstown is a major winter sports centre. In the summer it's developing a big reputation as an outdoor sports centre where you can do any and every form of lake- mountain- river- or air-based adventure activity.

For reasons of frugality (50%), for reasons of just not being that keen (30%) and for reasons of general cowardice (20%), we haven't taken part in any of the following:

Wind-surfing; kite-surfing; yachting; dinghy-sailing; jet-boating; water-skiing; para-gluiding; hang-gluiding; parachuting; bungee-jumping; bungee-swinging; heli-biking; quad-biking; motocross; white-water rafting; white-water tubing; white-water kayaking; white-water bellyboarding or 'fly-by-wire' (we're not sure exactly what this is either!).

We have, however, been for several mind-numbingly beautiful walks into the nearby mountains and around the lakeshore (see top). It's just beautiful and very very photogenic. We love it.

Here's far too many pics of the lake and around:

... and my favourite, taken by Laura:

Joe