Our first familles was a half day trip to walter peak station. In the morning we met up down at the steamer wharf and got on Real Journeys old classic steam ship the TSS Earnslaw also known as "the lady of the lake". The trip across the lake over to Walter Peak took about an hour and during that journey we got to take a good look around on board the ship, see how the crew worked, how the steam engines worked and take part in a few historic details which actually was quite interesting.
When we got to walter peak a farmer held a demonstration of how to work his sheepdog to collect the sheep and how to shear a sheep. He also talked a bit about and showed some of the other animals at the farm. Even though it was not the first time I visited a farm I found it to be really cool and informative.
After the farmer had held his demonstration we were served a delicious barbeque lunch. The weather was really good that day so the lunch at the outdooor serving could not have been much better than it was that day.
When lunchtime was over we all met up in the indoor dining room to have a chat with Real Journeys operating manager Angus who told us a few things about his managing role and how the organisation is built up.
Just before it was time to head back to the ship we had a short wine tasting and played some petanque on the beachfront.
On the way back to Queenstown we all engaged in a very entertaining sing along onboard the Earnslaw.
Once back in Queenstown we headed up to the gardens and completed some group(teambuilding) tasks before calling it a day.
(....unfortunately I do not have any pictures available from this day but it will be much more of that from future familles trips)
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