Arrowtown’s Wet Jacket is a great place to visit all year
If you are on the road in the Queenstown region this holiday season a great place to visit is Wet Jacket. The old Bendemeer wool shed is Wet Jacket’s cellar door and Whitestone’s cheese room. Wet Jacket is tucked in behind Amisfield, at the entrance to Bendemeer housing estate in Arrowtown. The original wool shed […]
Executive chef, Chris Scott has nailed the food at Jack’s Point Restaurant
Jack’s Point in Queenstown is a destination for more than one reason. As well as a large housing settlement, tucked under the Remarkable mountains it has a fabulous golf course and a wonderful eatery, Jack’s Point Restaurant. Jack’s Point Restaurant Chris Scott, previously executive chef at Rata in Queenstown is at the helm and certainly […]
Exploring the ethereal wilderness of the Dart River
When I was in Queenstown recently I decided to do the jet boat trip up the Dart River and see the ethereal wilderness of this beautiful part of the country. I did it years ago and remembered it vividly. In the depths of winter it was seriously freezing, but the good thing was the hand-rail […]