Fortune or Bobs Cove
Sheltered lakeside cove with bush walks, a historic lime kiln, gum trees and a jetty on clear water.
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This guide to Fortune or Bobs Cove, on Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown, starts with a count of old lime kilns that refuses to add up. It follows a boatman who ran a lake boat for Queenstown's founder, the southern Māori who knew the cove as Te Punatapu, and a lime company of the eighteen eighties whose mortar went into some of the district's stone buildings. Best heard on the track near the kiln, under the tall gum trees.
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