Sooooo cold this morning. Long trek to the ablutions, but worth it to get under that lovely hot shower. The sun takes a wee while to get up over the surrounding hills, but once it does it's very warm - hot even.
After breakfast and after doing some washing, the sun was streaming down so Doug and I shed our heavy jackets and woolly hats and walked into town.
We enjoyed exploring the shops, then walked over to the historic Chinese village.
We returned to camp to have lunch, then set out to find Coal Pit Rd. This is an old road in the Kawarau Gorge that winds up very high to an abandoned coal mine. It was definitely a 4 WD track; rough rather than scary and negotiated in 2nd gear, low ratio. Doug enjoyed looking at the rusty old steam boilers etc. He also happened upon this hedgehog munching away on some delicacy.
Travelling back to camp we called in to a winery and cheesery. We sampled some really lovely cheeses. after buying one we decided that we wouldn't visit the winery.
Our next stop was the impressive bungi jump on the Kawarau River. We waited for ages to see someone jump, but eventually our patience was rewarded.
Bungi jumping has been added to my Reverse Bucket List. Why do people do it?
Our final stop was Ford St, back in Arrowtown. Doug wanted to check out the ford as we will be crossing the Arrow River when we go, on to Wanaka on Wednesday via Tobin's track and the Crown Range.
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