Stray Bus Day 18 - Wanaka to Queenstown

Today at around midday we hopped on the next bus to come through with it's driver, a well travelled Kiwi called Bundy.

A Stray policy seems to be to give all their drivers an abstract nickname in order to provoke lots of questions by their passengers. Bagginz' story was something to do with him losing lugguge out the back of a bus becuase he forgot to shut the door properly; Lucky, I have no idea; and Bundy I assume had something to do with Bundaberg rum, although we never got the chance to ask him.

Anyhow, I digress. Our first stop on route was a quaint little fruit and veg shop just out of Wanaka called 'Mrs Jones'. She was famous not only for her vast array of fruit and veg, but also her homemade ice cream, which we all took advantage of. We continued on into Central Otago, past more mountains and through the wine region. We made another stop to watch some crazy people do a bungy jump at the original AJ Hackett bungy site at Kawarau Bridge, just outside Queenstown. There was an interesting centre dedicated to the history of bungy for those of us not crazy enough to do the jump itself. Late afternoon we drove on into the backpacking partying and ski hotspot of Queenstown, based at the Discovery Lodge bang slap in the middle of town for a couple of nights.