Deer Park at Queenstown NZ - Page 9
On the long drive from Te Anau to Lake Tekapo, we needed to stop somewhere so Kendra could get out of the car. Jane McEwan recommended stopping in Queenstown at Deer Park. This was the best entertainment for the money on our whole trip. At $20 for our car, we spent several hours driving around looking at and feeding the wildlife. We saw sheep, goats, alpacas, red deer, miniature horses, highland cattle, bison, and yaks.
The view of Queenstown and of Lake Wakatipu was magnificent and we all enjoyed seeing the animals up close and getting to feed them. I would recommend this short drive from Queenstown to go up to the top of this hill.
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These are Highland Cattle that are native to the hills of Scotland. They looked mean but seemed timid.
A small herd of American Bison was on the other side of a fence, I guess they could get rough.
These alpacas seemed scared of us, they came close, but we could not pet them. They almost attacked Susie.
These are albino “Black Fallow” Deer according to the information sheet from the Deer Park. They were very shy.
The rest of the deer shown here are Red Deer. They have been bred with imported Elk and are farmed in New Zealand for export around the world.
The Korean prison that Larry is standing in front of was from a Walt Disney movie called “The Rescue”.
Who was chasing who? The big goats chased Kendra and knocked her down, but she chased the small goats all over the mountain to try and pet some of them. This is one of my favorite pictures.
