Riversdale to Kingston

Next stop was Kingston, at the Southern end of Lake Wakatipu, and known for being the home of the Kingston Flyer steam train.

All aboard?!

Our place!

We parked up at the golf club, not far from the beautiful blue lake with towering hills behind - nobody playing golf or working on the course so we just hoped it would be OK to stay though we do feel a bit guilty doing this. However we were able to check with the mowerman while playing the next day and he was quite happy which meant we stayed last night too! I think that we wouldn't have been able to drive anywhere afterwards anyway as we ended up playing 4 rounds making 36 holes as you could play all day for the one fee of $15 each which we thought was a little dear for the state of the course but we ended up getting our money's worth!

Splosh putt!

Only one other person was on the course all day but it was a dog-show and a wet-n-wild theme park, being the place where everyone walks their dogs without carrying plastic bags and also a very basic green watering system where just one little stream of water pours onto one spot and creates huge puddles making the greens impossible with a mixture of total wetness or total dryness to putt through.

Ewe've gotta be kidding!

 Also curls of hose to skip over coming on to the green. A couple of stray sheep joined us too but all in all we had a bit of fun despite dehydrating fast in the very hot sunshine by the end of the day.