Southern trip - Invercargill and Dunedin NZ 2010

**###KILTEDKIWI###** · 11th February 10, 06:30 PM

Recently returned home to Invercargill for a catch up with family and friends, here are some quick pics of my home part of the world.

Called into the Catlins on the way home, via Nugget Point.
This pic is Otago looking into my home province of Southland.

An iconic image from my childhood, the nugget point light house.

Light house again

My wee fella Torin contemplating his escape

Emily and Torin harrassing the Tuatara "Henry"

**###KILTEDKIWI###** · 11th February 10, 06:36 PM

Henry in the scale so to speak

My castle is still standing in Queens Park.

Queens Park in the Centre of Invercargill

Kingston, looking up lake Wakatipu and toward Queenstown, with the Devils Staircase and the Nevis's to the right.

Arrowtown, the historic mining town and a second home for me, as we had a crib there for so many moons.

**###KILTEDKIWI###** · 11th February 10, 06:41 PM

Relics of the old Chinese golds miners have been restored for visitors, funny thing is we used to play "war" and hide and go seek through all these buildings and pay them no mind when i was a kid.

She must of been a hard life for the Chinese settlers, being in a minority and being so far away from home.

Some are cut into the hill side as stores.

The Arrow river, scene of the gold rush and a place that I grew up swimming in and playing around (not this bit, a tad shallow) and where my mothers side of the family (Mcleods) made their / his money and was able to send home to Tongue and bring out the remainders of the family.

Over to Queenstown for a visit, and up the hill via cable car for some luging, which is reached by chair lift and is awesome fun.

The green shed on the left is a bungy jump off the side of the mountain.

**###KILTEDKIWI###** · 11th February 10, 06:48 PM

Queenstown from Mitre Peak.

Even better, no age limit for the luge...

Found a cracking photo of the old man from his pipeband days...

And finally, a copy of this fellas work, it was gifted to a rellie in 1880, and I am struggling to date its orginal print date (nothing in cover or elsewhere), sadly, my grandmother in her dottering old days, managed to burn her house down, and the bottom part is water damage...

thats all folks.