Just a few days ago we made it to a city in the central South Island. It is on the edge of a LARGE (in length, width and depth - quantities likely to be known by other blog coauthor) lake. The city so beautiful and grand-- "tis fit for a queen" - Queenstown. Population not too large - maybe 8,000 with about that many tourists on any given day. Surrounded by mountains - it seems surreal. Good food, relaxed pace but the adrenalin crowd comes here for skiing, bungee, white water etc. The real South Islanders, it seems, take exception to the changes the tourists have brought and say with its sky high prices and glitz "it's not the real New Zealand." But there's a reason the rest of the world likes it here --- and so do I!
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