Queenstown, a general landscape view from the apartment at Fernhill - Saturday morning with 'long white cloud' (on a cloudy morning).
So, this was the view from the verandah at 9B Vos (street? road?), Fernhill, Queenstown (about a mile or so along the lake from downtown), where we spent an excellent family holiday week. Queenstown itself was interesting, including the quayside, the 1912 steamer on the lake, and the Queenstown gardens beside the lake.
This view gives some impression of the lake (“Lake Wakatipu”) and its bordering mountains, and the type of housing which typifies this part of New Zealand (though I might be hard-pressed to distinguish same from its Auckland counterpart). Very much not the standard UK ‘bricks-and-mortar’ job, but a wooden-framework building, probably with a corrugated-iron/other material roof - often covered/clad with shingles or the like purely for reasons of appearance. Spacious and well-insulated many-a-time too. And easy to take-down and rebuild in a new style, when desired. A feeling of affluence pervades many of the areas we have visited. This comment is based not just on the housing stock, but also on the standard and quality of the motor vehicles going by.