Day 42 Queenstown to Lake Mavora 50km
A bit more like it. Early breakfast in Queenstown and onto the SS Earnslaw. A steam boat commissioned in 1911 and in service since 1912, the year the Titanic sank. A gentle chug across the lake, they said. No one has ever got seasick, they said. Well they have now. It took a pot of tea and an hour the other end for the nystagmus to settle. Then a beautiful ride on a dirt track road, up a real gutbuster of a hill and into a beautiful beech forest before reaching the lake. The lake looked really familiar and the bumpf at the information point told why. It was where the end of the first Lord of the Rings film was shot, the bit where Frodo and Sam row across the lake after the fight. We bumped into Alan, Jay and Zac, a lovely family from Auckland travelling by tandem and bike. We first met them in Cromwell and were delighted to see them again. We pitched our tent in the mossy ground under the beeches right by the lakeshore and had a pleasant hour with them drinking tea and chatting. Then it started to drizzle, we had a hasty supper and retired to bed as the rain got heavier....