


Enjoying our time around Arrowtown
Arrowtown was a great home base for the remainder of our time on the South Island. Only 15 minutes drive from Queenstown, it was close enough to all the activities and far enough away so that we could enjoy some peaceful time in the country. The old mining own has a quaint little downtown area complete with several restaurants, pubs, and a grocery store. There were trail heads up into the mountians everywhere we went and we took a couple of nice hikes very close to our Arrotwtown cottage. First, only a couple minutes drive from our house was a five mile walk around Lake Hayes. The second hike we did was a little shorter in distance, but quite a bit more challenging up through Sawpit Gully. The loop began with a pretty steep uphill climb, and finished with us needing to navigate several crossings of a small mountian stream by hopping from rock to rock.