As legend has it, Queenstown’s Lake Wakatipu was made by a mischievous taniwha named Matau, who created a valley, which was then filled with mystic rain. Despite Matau being pronounced long dead, the giant’s heartbeat can still be noted in the steady rise and fall of the lake, his beautiful resting place.
From season to season, tourists make their pilgrimage to the scenic South Island town on the shores of the crystal-clear blue lake. The seasons are as marked as the tides here, with fresh pink cherry blossoms in spring, dry, hot summers and violent orange trees through autumn, which eventually become covered in a blanket of snow in the winter.
A duplex, owned by an international business couple on the northwest side of the lake, captures nature’s best all…
