Bluff enroute to Glenorchy

I don't know the exact location of this bluff, but the bus driver that brought us from Queenstown to the start of the Routeburn Track stopped here for a few minutes so we could have a look and take some pictures.

The lake is Lake Wakatipu that stretches from Queenstown down to Glenorchy. The road from Queenstown to Glenorchy wasn't built until the 60s so you used to have to take a ferry down the lake to get to Glenorchy. The road that we continued down after this stop is just barely visible on the far right of the photo.

Panoramas

At some point early on in this trip I realized that a lot of the things we are going to see are going to be hard to capture in one singular photo so I started taking a bunch of photos in a series with the idea of stitching them together to create panoramas. I had never done this before and had no idea if it would actually work but knew it was possible because we did it for an interactive virtual tour type experience on the Try-me website.

Long story short, EUREKA! I've done it! I managed to find some free panorama stitching software called Hugin and have stitched together a few panoramas. A few days into our trip my resident photo adviser/instructor George told me that I would want to make sure I have the focus fixed at infinity for all the photos or I would have problems with parallax.

I'm not going to burn through them all at once, but hopefully this first panorama gives you a good idea of what it's like to stand at the top of Bob's Peak in Queenstown.

Suffice this whole post to say: if you're reading this, I wish you were here.