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April 20, 2008
The road that leads from Mt Cook to Lake Wanaka and then to Queenstown leds through the austere Lindis Pass:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Lindis Pass South Island, New Zealand, 2008
This is tussock grassland country and it links the Mackenzie Basin with Central Otago. The old Maori track through the hills was rediscovered by John T Thomson while surveying this region in 1857 and was soon traveled by large numbers of gold prospectors. In the valley of the Lindis River a number of old farmsteads dating from the time of the early settlers still survive; particularly notable is Morven Hills farm.
At the southern end of the Lindis Pass is the small village of Tarras:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Tarras, South Island, New Zealand
Sites used to film the Great East Road and the Flight to the Ford in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings are on private land about ten-minutes drive from the tiny township of Tarras, but you can still see much of the general area from a nearby side road.
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