Day 29 Queenstown

An update from yesterday, we had hoped to change our flight bookings so that one of us occupied an aisle seat so that we needn't disturb anyone else when we wanted to get up during the long flights.  At the moment we are unable to change but we will try again when we check in at Dunedin.  

Today was a bit cooler and cloudier but we went on our coal fired, steam driven ship on a cruise across Lake Wakatipu to a farmstead.  The ship was launched in 1912 the year after the Titanic but luckily we didn't meet any icebergs!  There was a viewing gallery where you could watch and listen to everything going round and up and down.  As you can see she threw out some smoke whilst underway.

We saw parts of the lake we hadn't viewed before but after about 40 mins of a memorable journey we were at our destination.  We were welcomed by a farmer who said he was going to demonstrate some of the workings of a New Zealand farm.  First off we were given a demonstration of how a sheep is sheared - in front of our eyes and very interesting. Next a "One man and his dog" type demonstration with him whistling and talking to a border collie.  We were then allowed to feed some farm animals - sheep, alpacas, deer and highland cattle.  We really enjoyed the trip which lasted most of today and we have enjoyed the fact 
that for the past two days no driving has been involved and we have just sat back and been entertained.