On Sunday, with clear skies, we embarked on a road trip to see another couple of nearby sites. We started in a little town called Arrowtown. Following the discovery of gold in 1862, a town of tents sprung up beside the river. However, the next year, heavy snow and a big flood came and washed many of the miners and their supplies away.
In 1870, all was rebuilt. Today, many remain and have become shops or food establishments.
We walked through part of town – it was a weekend and lots of people were visiting.
We headed out from Arrowtown to drive to Ayrburn, a local winery.
The homestead was built in the late 1800’s and remained a successful and productive wheat, sheep and dairy farm up until the early 21st century. In 2021, they started to reconstruct the woolshed, stables, cart shed and dairy to be enjoyed as food establishments on the property.
After a nice walk around the grounds, we headed out for our final destination, the Crown Range Road.
This road provided some nice views back to Queenstown. We climbed about 1500 feet in elevation from the city level to the village of Cardrona at which time we decided to turn around and head back to our accommodation.
We headed back to our accommodation to do some laundry and prep our bags for tomorrow’s flight to Sydney.
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