On this particular day, after having a couple days with a good amount of driving I wanted to do some walking and hiking. After doing a bit of research on some hikes that could be done relatively close to where I was, I decided to start with the Twelve Mile walking track, which also connected to the Bobs Cove walking track . It was close to Queenstown on the road going out to Glenorchy. Initially I wanted to start at the Bobs Cove end of the hike, but the parking area was very small, and there were no available spaces, so I went back to the Twelve Mile area, which it turned out had a giant parking area, and there was pretty much no one there. The walk takes you along a peninsula, and you go in and out of the forest along the lakeshore. In the Twelve Mile area there were also a couple of locations that were used in the Lord of the Rings movies. One spot along the river was where Sam was cooking the rabbit, and the camping area of Twelve Mile was also apparently used for Ithilien. That wasn't really the point of going, but interesting nonetheless. After a while this hike took a sharp turn uphill, and I was able to get an amazing view on top of the end of the peninsula looking down on either side of it to see both sides of the lake.
This is how it started out...
This is the spot where they were cooking that rabbit....
Stopped here for a snack....
So pretty!
This was also an old mining area, and this is an old hut related to that....
Looking down at the peninsula
Bobs Cove...
The view from the "picnic point" at the top end of the peninsula
After finishing that hike, I decided I wasn't finished walking for the day, and I headed to the other side of the river to do the hike to Jack's Point. Most of the people on this particular trail were on bicycles, so I spent a lot of time getting out of their way. This hike also went along the shore of Lake Wakapitu (although it was relatively high above the lake itself). It was on the opposite side of the lake from where I had been staying.
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