The view from the kitchen in our cottage
Lavender outside the cottage
Me collecting potatoes from the garden for dinner
Typical Central Otago landscape
Cooling off down by the lake
Jackson Lookout - overlooking the meeting of the Kawarau and Clutha rivers.
We walked up the Old Reservoir track from the Jackson Lookout for views over Cromwell
Lunch at the Gibbston Valley vineyard. The setting was beautiful, we had a lovely time, but the food was a bit average and the service was pretty poor. It wasn't their fault that two car accidents had occurred just before we arrived, but they forgot to take our order. Then Reid ordered a starter and main, which they bought out at the same time!! I was going to have a dessert but they never came back to our table so I decided to leave it ... I was pretty full anyway.
Wandered through Historic Cromwell - they have lots of old buildings with original equipment that Reid could play with ... including this old printing press
We attempted to have a picnic by the lake for dinner, but it was just a hilarious disaster!
We forgot the salt and salad dressing - for Reid this meant dinner was ruined! Because we also forgot a bottle opener, Reid popped the bottle top off with a knife. On any other day this would have worked, but this time it took the lip of the bottle off instead of the lid. We left it too late to go to the lake so the sun had disappeared and it was a bit cold. But the clincher was the wind had picked up, so we were getting blasted with gravel dust! By about half way through eating we had to pack up and head back to the cottage!! I couldn't stop laughing!!
We went for a walk through the old mining sluicings - where the area had been water blasted for gold. It does make for a really interesting landscape!
