Outside of Queenstown on our way to the Routeburn hut, we stayed at a small "lodge" that caught my eye when looking for hotels. The owners have lived here 20 years and the husband is a very driven artist with a need to constantly create! This includes inside the house and out. In the garden, in addition to the sculptures, ponds and fountains, there we over 300 rose bushes. His handiwork inside was astounding. The pictures below are just a sampling of the place.
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Surveyors showed the owner he was on the
45 parallel, so cool he built a 45th-demarkation. |
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| Notice the siding of the house, it's stacked wood. |
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| Nice place for yoga with the mountains and lake in the background! |
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The medium of the sculptures is tiny rocks set in concrete,
this woman's fine hair is tiny rocks coating curled wire.
There are many 2-foot long salmon in the pond
with a sculpted fresh-water eel at the bottom of it. |
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| Driftwood siding. |
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The floors are made of wood tiles from "slicing" logs,
fitting them together, and then varnishing the whole thing. |
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| Look below the sink; there are drawers and cupboards. |
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| We didn't get to use the tub; evidently it leaks! |
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What can I say, this is brilliant! It's a little
scarey to flush wondering what will happen
to the fish, but there is a real toilet tank
in the wall behind the fish, but you do wonder! |
what a wonderful place to stay! I so wish I was artistic, I could only imagine how interesting I could make our property. Lol
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