Home - 2019 - New Zealand - Day 19 - Queenstown


Photographer: Josh Eckels


Flexing the wings

Curled up for a nap

Morepork owl

Falcon with an injured wing

Wood pigeon, very stately

Red-crowned parakeet

Beers at lunch

Hoisting a sour

Lunch has arrived!

Boarding the gondola

In the gondola car

Queentown in the background

Climbing

Very lightly snow dusted

Cut through the trees

Lake Wakatipu

At the top of the gondola ride

In front of the Remarkable range

Up toward Arthur's Point

Chair lift for the luge

Luges and passengers catching a ride

Up to the top!

Helmets on for safety!

Ready to race

Matching helmet and jacket

Returning to base

Final ride down

Rounding the bend

Rebecca in the lead

Fun in the dirt

On the way down

Late afternoon clouds

Final dinner at Ivy and Lola's

Gondola to Skyline

Fresh snow on top

Mountains behind downtown

Fergburger, always with a line

Lightly dusted

Tuatara on display

Wood pigeon (kereru)

Waiting for a treat before flying back

Taxidermied display kiwi

One of the invasive possums

Chowing down

About to pilfer some cash

Waiting for the thief

The gateaway

Napping kea

Distinctive hooked beak

Showing a little orange

Stretching a bit more

Full back display

And now for the underwing

 

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