Kingston -Te Anau - Gore and Dunedin, special places in the South of New Zealand

Kingston has the "Kingston Flyer". This was a vintage steam train operating in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It uses 14 kilometres of preserved trackage that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch. In November 2009, the Flyer's owners were put into receivership and the train itself put up for sale. The operation was purchased in August 2011 by New Zealand businessman David Bryce who plans to have the train back in operation by late October. You see the Flyer in an unemployed situation.
Te Anau is a town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is on the eastern shore of Lake Te Anau in Fiordland. It is the gateway to a wilderness area famed for tramping and spectacular scenery. We made a cruise on the lake and we visit the famous glowwormcaves.
By blocking of the way back to Queenstown by rocks we had to make a big detour and visit Gore for a lunchstop. Special in this city is a well painted passage with nice perspectives of a steamtrain and of a local situation.
The Flemings "Creamoata Mill" is an iconic local building, with Flemings "Creamoata" brand of porridge once considered the National Breakfast. "Sergeant Dan the Creamoata Man".
In Dunedin we visit the railway station. Also very special. Designed by George Troup, the station is the fourth building to have served as Dunedin's railway station. It earned its architect the nickname of "Gingerbread George". In an eclectic, revived Flemish renaissance style, (Renaissance Revival architecture), the station is constructed from dark basalt from Kokonga in the Strath-Taieri with lighter Oamaru stone facings, giving it the distinctive light and dark pattern common to many of the grander buildings of Dunedin and Christchurch.

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