After a few days of driving the skinny, twisty roads of NZ, it is nice to sit back, relax, and be chauffeured around a bit. And that was just what we got on our 3 hour journey from Queenstown to Doubtful Sound. Our driver gave a running commentary of the scenery we were passing, starting with the dark, jagged mountains, The Remarkables, which flank Queenstown southeast. It is a testament to his skill as a tourism operator that he kept us at rapt attention speaking of abandoned towns, NZ's farming history and the difference between baleage, hay, and silo feed! One such abandoned town (or I believe he said it is still a town since it has a population of 5!) still holds some cache as it is the town furthest from the coast in all of New Zealand at a whopping 76 km!!!
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