Posted 7th January 2018 to the mountain scene newspaper Queenstown NZ.
It’s been a long times since I have been into Skippers, and actually in a VW Kombi the Traditional Skippers Bus of the 1970s
I am so gutted to read that the Historic Mount Aurum Homestead is now gone but was very sad to see that all the trees are dead around Skippers. It looks absolutely terrible. I don’t think I could bear going back there now. Sad how it was once a place of great beauty now it looks like an industrial accident. It really is painful. The progress of modern times has not been kind to Central Otago. A cancerous petulance of Ugly has fallen on a once fair land.
It’s been a long times since I have been into Skippers, and actually in a VW Kombi the Traditional Skippers Bus of the 1970s
I am so gutted to read that the Historic Mount Aurum Homestead is now gone but was very sad to see that all the trees are dead around Skippers. It looks absolutely terrible. I don’t think I could bear going back there now. Sad how it was once a place of great beauty now it looks like an industrial accident. It really is painful. The progress of modern times has not been kind to Central Otago. A cancerous petulance of Ugly has fallen on a once fair land.
