day out in Queenstown area

Photo taken from the base of the Crown range road

I thought I would start this blog post off with a photo of the mountains above Queenstown and the spectacular clouds. Unfortunately I'm injured for a short time and so my photos are going to be less adventurous and more sedate.

This is the sign at the entrance to the road I've been warned

We drove along one of New Zealands most dangerous roads luckily for me and the other people in the car I wasn't driving. The road is a single track road near coronet peak and is an actual NZ road with road markers on the side of the road. There is a large land slide on the road and the council are working to clear it. We went to check it out.

Yes that is the road on the side of the cliff

The landslide covering the road is left of the digger

This river is used for rafting and jet boat rides

Big digger

The next activity on the agenda was gold panning and I'm afraid I was having too much fun to take photos and it was raining. But I did get a photo of the gold we found.

Gold!