I've just returned from spending a week in beautiful New Zealand. People tell you how stunning it is but you cannot comprehend just how gorgeous it is until you actually see it with your own eyes. This is the much loved and much photographed Wanaka Tree - taken just a moment or two before the sun rose over the mountains behind me. My friends and I came well prepared, we were there well before the dawn and came wearing gumboots so we could wade out a little into the cold lake. By the time the sun came up there were over 30 photographers lining the shore.
I just loved how the light was glistening on the leaves on this stunning Queenstown morning
This gorgeous old steamboat is the TSS Earnshaw or as the locals like to call her "The Lady of the Lake." The steamship has been carrying goods to isolated settlements and ferrying passengers on the pristine Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown since 1912. These days she takes tourists on day & evening cruises to Walter Peak. I took this image from the balcony of the townhouse I was staying in. How beautiful was my view!
