Glenorchy Lagoon Scenic Walkway
Boardwalk loop across a bird-rich wetland with mirror-still water and snowy mountain views.
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This guide to the Glenorchy Lagoon Scenic Walkway, at the head of Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown, reads the wetland under your feet as a landscape still in motion. It reaches back to the glaciers and the ancient, higher lake that shaped this valley, and to the rivers pouring out of the mountains beyond. Along the way it turns to the stilts, oystercatchers, scaup and falcons that live here now. Best heard on the boardwalk facing north toward Mount Earnslaw.
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