Autumn sunrise over the Clutha River, Roxburgh, New Zealand
The Clutha is New Zealand's mightiest river, not the longest, but by far the biggest volume. It's deep, glacier-fed waters draining the South Island high country from deep within fiorland national park, flowing through the central Otago lakes, and across the Otago plains to the Pacific ocean on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. Its deep rocky confines have seen gold rushes come and go, gorges stilled by hydro electric dams, and deep fast rapids the playground of thrill seeking jet boaters. Its water irrigate some of New Zealand's finest vineyards and the fruit bowl of the south, the intense, rich, central otago orchards clinging to the sunny banks of this mightly flow.
Autumn sunrise over the Clutha River, Roxburgh, New Zealand
The Clutha is New Zealand's mightiest river, not the longest, but by far the biggest volume. It's deep, glacier-fed waters draining the South Island high country from deep within fiorland national park, flowing through the central Otago lakes, and across the Otago plains to the Pacific ocean on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. Its deep rocky confines have seen gold rushes come and go, gorges stilled by hydro electric dams, and deep fast rapids the playground of thrill seeking jet boaters. Its water irrigate some of New Zealand's finest vineyards and the fruit bowl of the south, the intense, rich, central otago orchards clinging to the sunny banks of this mightly flow.