Paradise at THE END OF THE ROAD
PARADISE. The word and location is loaded with expectations. At the head of Lake Wakatipu, continue past Glenorchy towards the Dart River Valley, onto the gravel road past the Earnslaw Burn and through a corner of beech forest in Mt Aspiring National Park.
Sheep graze in the paddocks, and Diamond Lake appears as a slice of silver beneath the pyramid-like Mt Alfred. With the Main Divide becoming increasingly dominant in the windscreen, the small sign ‘Paradise’ starts to make sense.
But we’re not there, just yet. Cross the cattle stop, through the gate and drive on to the homestead. There’s a moment of wondering which way to go, before the trust manager, Mandy Groshinski, might appear with any number and shape of dogs by her side, and show you the way for a walk, or stay.
Head on up the road, past the treehouse, ‘Big Cottage’, and the ‘Old School’, and as
