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 View of the homestead from the
Earnslaw. by Kakapo2
The homestead of the farm (The Colonel’s Homestead) is used for hosting tourists that cruise the lake on board the TSS Earnslaw.
By ship Walter Peak Station is only 13 km from Queenstown. If you try to get there by road you must drive south via Lumsden, then west to Mossburn and turn onto a gravel road (Mt. Nicolas Road) near The Key. This is 124 km! The station has had a special lease for 30 years since 1998. The agreement limits the number of stock that can graze the area (3180 sheep including not more than 1360 breeding ewes and 1500 cattle including not more than 910 breeding cows). The agreement includes the tourism activities.
Walter Peak Station and adjoining Cecil Peak Station are named after the mountains with the same names, and those again are named after Cecil Walter Rees, the son of William Gilbert Rees. William Gilbert Rees was the first settler of Queenstown and had a sheep run at the place where the township of Queenstown is now. Cecil Peak is 1974 metres high and Walter Peak slightly lower.
If you have a spare NZ$ 2 or 3 million you could buy into a development which has been carved off Walter Peak Station ;-) The American developer is selling up at the moment. He wanted to build a luxury lodge and several cottages on a 38 hectare site. If you want to develop the whole site it could easily cost you between NZ$ 50 and 80 million... 75,000 plants have already been established, so you do not have to do everything ;-))) (This info is as December 2008.)
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This is a packaged min tour that includes a ride of an old steamer boat, TSS Earnslaw to a hide-away country farm where they show you how to shear sheep's wool and how the dogs how to wrangle herds of sheep. At the farm, there is a nice colonial building where high tea can be enjoyed. The farm is very serene and away from any urban life. Leave a Comment
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