February 15th- Day 8

This morning we traveled to Christchurch to catch the Naked Bus to take us to Queenstown. The bus ride is approximately 9 hours! All along the way we stopped at various little towns to have a ten minute break and had lunch at 1:30. Along our journey we actually met a  girl who was originally form Los Angeles and here mother was a Kiwi. She had moved to New Zealand and she absolutely loves it here. Natalie had given us numerous tips and ideas through out our travels.

 This is one of many photos from Lake Tekapo. However, the color of the water that is captured in the back is the whole color of the lake! It's a beautiful light pale blue.

 This is the Church of the Good Shepherd. The Church of the Good Shepherd was built in 1935 to the glory of God as a memorial to the pioneers of the Mackenzie Country. Congregations of the three main faiths worship regularly in the Church, which offers awe inspiring views of the lake and mountains through the altar window.

 Along our bus ride to Queenstown we stopped in Wanaka. This is one place I would really like to go back and visit. Wanaka is a town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated at the southern end of Lake Wanaka, adjacent to the outflow of the lake to the Clutha River. It is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park. Wanaka is primarily a resort town but has both summer and winter seasons and is based around the many outdoor opportunities.

 As we got closer to Queenstown we were surrounded more by wine/ fruit trees. Numerous places like this one had a large white netting over the entire field, holding the trees inside of it.

 This is our first sight of Queenstown. Surrounded by majestic mountains and nestled on the shores of crystal clear Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown is New Zealand’s premier four season lake and alpine retreat.

 Of course during our journey was saw numerous sheep herds. On our bus ride we got the opportunity to see a herd being worked by numerous dogs and an older gentleman on foot.

After we got settled into our hostel we had asked around for a great place to eat. Well the local hot spot was Fergburger. This was the largest, most amazing burger I have probably ever had the pleasure of eating. And I will admit I had three in four days .

After all of our traveling and eating for the day we had made arrangements to go bungy jumping for the next two days. Tomorrow we would be jumping off of the Ledge Bungy. The Ledge is 43 meters in length. And as for Thursday we will be doing the Nevis Bungy, a total of 134 meters!!
The Queenstown area is absolutely beautiful, it reminds me a lot of home and the surrounding mountains. There is very little humidity and that is just a bonus.