Please note: Origional post is on my channel.
Welcome back and welcome to anyone new to this blog.
So far in New Zealand I've only writen about my experience of the North Island with one exception, Dunedin
If you remember from that post I mentioned that I was about to discover "the real New Zealand".
Well this is where it begins...
Queenstown
Queenstown was the first place I visited where the "real new zealand" began to show itself. It's a small town located in a stunning area, right on lake Wakatipu
Perhaps I was lucky when I was there, like many scenic locations it's all about the weather and the only day I had really bad weather was the first morning I woke up, but that soon changed, quiete dramatically may I add.
If you want to read the full story, I posted a blog about it a long time ago, although somehow it didn't get much attention.
Anyway, you can read about that here
Most of the time however the weather was sunny; and when the weather is good, the vibe is good.
The Town
The town itself is a small, quiet(ish) place during the day. I like the little green area's they've added despite already being surrounded by natural beauty.
The place can be a bit of a party town at night. The amount of backpackers walking around getting drunk is rediculous! But saying this, it's a very clean and well looked after town.
A random wine cart with no one attending it...easy money.
There's a famous burger place called FergBurger which apparently does really nice burgers. Whether this is true or not I don't know but the que to get in went down the road, so obviously a big hit with tourists! Word of mouth relly gets around quick these days thanks to social media.
Here's the que...
Yeh...I wasn't kidding
Going for a stroll
Queenstown is a beautiful place, the surrounding scenery is mind blowing at times.
I went for just a short treck into the woods nearby and got some really nice views just 20 minutes walk away.
After trecking through unexpected, pipelines, boulders and small cliffs the terrain finally opened out.
I couldn't quite belive the house where I was staying was so pefrectly located. After days of failed hostel and air bnb bookings, I ended up in a house with this down the road...
Next to the beach is a small park where you can play frizby golf which is exactly as it sounds but instead of a hole, there's a target with chains hanging which catch the frizby. I've not played it but I vet it's hard! However, if you walk around the edge of the park, you get to wittness yet more stunning views.
The Lake And Beach
First off, I didn't even know there would be a beach here...I mean the surroundings are mountains and greenery. Perhaps a stony beach but not this.
This lake, trully is the highlight of Queenstown. Looking over the lake is simply awe inspiring.
Beach Party!
Speaking of the lake, there's two activities which really stand out which I had no idea were there prior to arrival.
Fly Boarding- Where you basically "fly" like Iron Man as jets of water spray from your feet.
Hydro Attack - A speedboat shaped like a shark which also goes underwater like a submarine. I concidered doing it but after watching it fly all over the place, my stomach and I agreed to give it a miss lol.
I also considered Fly Boarding but A, I bet it's really hard and B, the water was freezing. I found that out after a brief morning swim.
Also, if you look up to towards the mountain you might spot some paragliders.
The Basket of Dreams
I had no idea this was here! I'd seen it on a post somewhere in the past. Probably facebook or instagram.
I was simply walking up there for hopefully a good view at the top. Little did I know the views on the way up were pretty awesome too.
I had no idea where I was going, just found a path to walk up and followed it. But then I came to this doorway.
Next to the doorway was a message...it read:
So I continued up the path which went from a simple path overlooking the town, to a windy path through the woods.
Finally, when you get near to the top you've then got to find it, there are no signs from the gate I mentioned earlier. But that's ok, I guess since it's a basket of dreams that made sense.
By the time I reached the top, the weather had changed. The clouds rolled over and the wind started to pick up.
I took a few wrong turns, one leading back into the woods but eventually, I found it.
The Basket Of Dreams
As I stood there overlooking the mountains surrounding the lake, I felt a sense of achievement.
No, not just finding the damn thing but everything I'd done up untill that point.
I was standing in the basket of dreams...living the dream, but I wasn't dreaming. I was really there! Thousands of miles away from freinds and family who were busy with their working lives. It felt pretty unbelievable to be honest.
After that I found a spot to take the picture I came up here for.
*Ruined by the weather, but whatever. Still worth the climb.
There was me thinking that was the end of the trail but there was another path leading...who knows.
Now it started to rain and from the looks of the clouds, I knew it was going to pour so I headed back to the accomadation. I got back just in time for a big downfall! 🌧🌪
There's alot more to this place than meets the eye. You need to spend at least a week here as I did. Queenstown is a great base to explore other places. What places you ask? You'll see in a later post...hopefully.
There is two more activities that really stand out here, one of which made me fear for my life. Can you guess what it is?...
I'll be posting about those next time.
As always, thank you for reading
I've not been posting recently as my @travelfeed app is not responding or opening at all. It's been nearly a year since I have posted without an app so I appoligise if the layout is really bad.
Also, I'd like to thank @travellingbug for her continued support of my blogs. (Apparently they're a good read)
Once again, thank you.
Please note: Origional post is on my channel.
You have recycled this post 4 different times. Farming over $150 from 4 different communities.
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Hey there! @curangel here. First, this is a great post! That's why it was selected by one of our curators to be upvoted. However, while we were going over our votes, we noticed that you've posted this same post four separate times in four different tags/communities:
First, welcome back! It seems you've been gone a while, and have decided to explore the Communities feature now that you are back, which is great! However, we (and most stakeholders on Hive) find reposting to be an undesirable behaviour. Since there are four separate posts being created when you do this, that means you are taking rewards out of the reward pool four times instead of one. And since all of their content is the same, curators who are looking at the pending rewards they have may not know that they are duplicates of another post. Hopefully you can understand why some see this as unfair.
Obviously, sometimes a post really might make sense to be in multiple communities at a time. The communities feature is pretty new and there are lots of ways it could be improved, but one thing you might do in this case is use something called a cross-post which is available on the PeakD frontend (https://peakd.com). This allows your post to be linked in a community, but it will be clearly marked as a cross-post, and curators will hopefully understand to vote the original post instead.
Please let us know when you receive this message and if you agree not to multi-post like this in the future, we'll let our vote stand in recognition of good faith.
I understand. Unable to loh into Peakd at the moment though. I've put a disclaimer on the top and bottom of duplicate posts.
Hope this helps. Thank you
Thank you for explaining. Can't get in to peakd as it requires a different key other than posting key. But might give that a go in the future.
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Living the dream, enjoyed traveling with you through your lens and recollection, this is such a pretty part of the world.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi, please refrain from making a new post for each community. You can use the crosspost feature instead, some communities allow it I think. What you have done now is post the same content 4x on chain, which is spamming.
Sorry, I didn't know. I'm not sure what the crosspost feature is either. Guess I'll google it :-s
I didn't mean to spam. I can take it down/remove it that's not a problem.
If you're using Peakd, you will see this at the bottom of your post and click the three dots.
It's like the crosspost feature on Reddit, what it does is just basically posting your post to another communities without you having to make a 'new post' for the same content to different communities. Hmm, a bit like retweet. You don't need to remove all the content though, you can just put a disclaimer at the top maybe, to let the curators know you have posted this multiple times without knowing much about how communities work.:)
Thank you for that :-). I didn't know what peakd was...an app for hive? It's all so confusing this blockchain buiseness.
I did try to sign up for peakd but failed because it wad the wrong password/key (posting key)
Am I right in saying if you post on peakd, then it's automatically on the hive block chain.
I clearly have alot to learn 😞
It's another frontend for Hive. Hmm, I'm not sure why it won't sign you in.. Have you tried installing Hive Keychain in your browser to sign in btw? Think I had that problem before even though I've never changed my keys. I personally like using PeakD better because it's easier to use but if you're into simplicity you can just use hive.blog.
Yes. :D
It was the wrong password. I used posting key, but it's meant to be a different one. I will have another look when I can be bothered :-s
Do you think posting the same post in four different communities is ok?
This is a great post full of cool shots but make sure to post it just once next time ;) I am sorry to downvote great content like this but I have to in this case...
That's fine, I wasn't aware that it was four copies vecause there was only 1 i could see on my blog. But now I see under posts what you mean.
It's a shame you can't share with different communities. Especially when the commumities you (I) follow basically have the same goal...good content. But oh well, I won't do it again
There is a cross posting feature available on PeakD but even this practise is controversial to many (including me) as that´s basically earning multiple rewards with one post... But again, this post is great and I hope you will be creating content like this :) Just make sure not to post it all over the place ;)