"Is them sheep?"

Hurray! The storm seems to have buggered off. We started today with a nice drive west from Queenstown to Twelve Mile Delta. I prattled about Lord of the Rings filming locations while Claire made plans to buy a house at Wilson's Bay. This is going to become a common theme.

The lake was beautiful, with nice clear views over to the mountains. Look:

That little hill on the left there in the last photo - that there is Amon Hen. Well, the filming location for Amon Hen. Just about. I geeked. A lot. And that one in the second one down below, that one turns up when Sam sees the oliphaunts.

Then we headed back to Queenstown and went out through the back and into the hills to find Arrowtown, which is an old gold-mining settlement.

It's very pretty but obviously geared towards tourists. We didn't care - the sun had come out, there was an amazing sweet shop and the bakery did really nice smelling pies. So we bought some fudge, had a stroll around the remains of the Chinese settlement and bought some pies to go. We're so cool.

 

 

Then came the drive to Dunedin. First stop came at Cromwell, which is pretty and we want to live there too. We're going to need a lot of holiday homes. Another stupid selfie of the day.

I liked the dam at Roxburgh because it just appealed to the geek within.

Dunedin itself is nice enough but there isn't that much to do. We decided to have tea out and picked a place that does stonegrill. Basically, choose your meat and some sides and it comes to you raw on a very hot stone so you can cook it how you want. We had lamb, because we had to try New Zealand lamb. It was delicious and I don't normally like lamb. Yum. Oh yeah, pictures of raw meat.

And then a fairly early night because tomorrow we get to have the uber-long drive up to Kaikoura. By which I mean 7 hours. Ack.