Sunshine Bay
Sheltered lakeside cove with a pebbly beach, small pier and clear water beneath mountain views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sunshine Bay, on the Glenorchy road just west of Queenstown, follows the money behind a quiet lakeside suburb: the two-dollar bus, the rented rooms on the slopes of Ben Lomond, and the tourism workers who kept the town running. It touches the pandemic year of twenty twenty, when one road and one industry turned out to matter a great deal. Best heard down by the boat ramp and the little pier.
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