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 Queenstown flowers

Happy New Year’s Eve!  Today was a beautiful day, bright and sunny and warm enough for a T-shirt, which was a nice change.  Today I was going to go to Glenorchy and do a horseback-riding trip, but everybody was booked solid.  Oops.  Guess I waited too long to make a reservation.  So instead I spent all day on my feet, hiking all the trails that loop behind Queenstown.  Okay, maybe not ALL of them, but a lot of them.

I started off doing the walk on the footpath on the lakefront between my hotel in Frankton and Queenstown’s city center, which took about 30-40 minutes.  I strolled once or twice around Queenstown, doing some window-shopping and grabbing a quick lunch at one of the cafes.  Then I headed back behind Queenstown on the Ben Lomond trail, which was HARD hard hard.  Steep and uphill most of the way.  Good exercise though right?  Now I know why it was labeled “High Fitness” on the DOC trail map.  Maybe it’ll burn off the calories I plan to drink tonight in celebration of New Year’s Eve.

Then again, maybe not.

 

View from the Fernhill Track

After I killed my muscles on the Ben Lomond I headed over to the Fernhill side of town and did the Fernhill track, which was a walk in the park compared to Ben Lomond and really quite scenic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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