Irish lakes and coastline
Comparable to Scotland and Iceland, Ireland is blessed with many attractive lakes (or loughs) and an extensive and often rugged coastline. Here’s a taster of a few from my travels…
Tag: Lakes
Cairns Botanic Gardens
Almost certainly the best thing to do in Cairns itself, the Flecker Botanic Gardens are a very pleasant place to wander around for free. The clear highlight was the freshwater…
Lake Crucible
A 6-8 hour 14km return walk from Siberia Hut on the Gillespie Pass Circuit, Lake Crucible is a spectacular glacier fed alpine lake below Mt Alba. I managed the return…
Gillespie Pass Circuit
An increasingly popular track an hour north of Wanaka, the Gillespie Pass is normally a 3-4 day walk, but thanks to a ridiculously long day two (10 hours of walking,…
Wanaka, Albert Town, Lake Hawea & Gladstone
Wanaka is the perfect place to explore by bike, with seemingly endless well maintained tracks and stunning scenery everywhere. I hired one for the day (Racer’s Edge is a good…
Around Lake Wakatipu
Had some unexpected spare time after leaving Welcome Rock earlier than planned, so took a more leisurely drive back to Queenstown, following the beautiful Lake Wakatipu. Took a quick look…