A Tour of Queenstown - Part 1: Queenstown Gardens

Since we don't really have anything going on that is all too interesting (unless you'd like to hear about the spaghetti we had for dinner last night or the games of Yahtzee we've been playing), we thought we'd do a little virtual tour of Queenstown and some of the surrounding areas. Today we'll cover what is probably our favorite part of town - Queenstown Gardens. But first, the below map gives a little overview of the layout of Queenstown and some of the notable places around town.

As you can see, Queenstown Gardens covers a small peninsula just a short walk from downtown. It's called gardens but it is really a big park with lots of stuff to do. There is frisbee golf, a jogging/walking track, tennis courts, lawn bowling, croquet, a skate park, an indoor ice skating rink, plus the gardens of course. Everything is well landscaped and really nice. Since it is spring, the birds are chirping and some of the trees and flowers are starting to bloom. It's really quite lovely. We've had a run of nice weather recently, and on a warm spring day the park is packed with people lounging around on the grass, feeding the ducks in the pond, or playing frisbee golf. The only other thing worth a note is the pigeons. We're not talking about dirty, crumbing-eating pigeons you find in cities all over the world. I'm talking about wild, native pigeons, which are absolutely enormous. They swoop over your head making this weird clucking noise, but otherwise stick to the trees and aren't begging for scraps like their cousins. Thought everyone would like to hear about that.

Nice view of town from the park

Frisbee golf hole that I got a hole-in-one on. You are required to go through the big trees to get to the hole just to the right and behind them.

The rose garden is pruned and ready for spring flowers

Baby ducks

These trees are really strange. They are called "monkey puzzle" trees.

the weeping willows hanging over the pond are pretty

Click HERE for more pictures from Queenstown Gardens. Also, we'd like to give a shout out to Steph's cousin Emily and wish her a happy birthday. (This is a dangerous precedent, since I am notoriously bad at remembering birthdays). Oh and by the way, the spaghetti was good and I have been dominating at Yahtzee.