A day trip to Queenstown to collect the last of our guests from the airport and then do a bit more sightseeing is captured beautifully by Laurie and her camera once again………..
With Alys’ husband due to fly into the Queenstown airport, the 7 of us piled into two vehicles and drove the 68k into the city.
Can you guess who my seat mate was?
Along the way, we passed Bradrona, the famous “bra fence of Cardrona”. The collection of bras started around 1999, when four bras mysteriously appeared overnight on a fence along the Cardrona Valley Road. It wasn’t until an unknown bra thief began cutting them away under the shadow of the night that the fence gained its notoriety. Every time they were cut away, even more were added, and the bra count has reached over 7000. The infamous fence was rebranded to “Bradrona” in 2015 to raise money for breast cancer and $30,000 has been raised by people leaving donations in a box at the site.
What a powerful monument to say the least. While we did not leave our bras, we did…
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What a great account of your trip. Every country should have a bra fence! Thanks for sharing with us.
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The bra fence is great isn’t it! Thanks for coming by Daffy!
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Look at what has been achieved due to one misery guts taking the bras down and others determined to replace them with others. A wonderfully opportunistic way to raise both awareness and funds – fantastic! Lovely to see more happy photos of you all enjoying NZ:)
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You are absolutely right Sheila – we don’t tend to let the misery gutses win here 😀 We had a fabulous time, and thank you for coming by to share in it.
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That is such a cool fence! It looks like you all are having a marvelous adventure. 🙂
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Hello Robin! Yes, it is a great fence. Every time we went past there were tourists wandering about, taking photos and leaving donations. We have had a wonderfully special time together. Very lucky!!
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What a fabulous adventure, Pauline. I love the Bradrona Wall. If only people could work so well together to achieve other things too!
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Quite so Norah – you can’t keep a determined woman from putting her bra on a fence if she has decided to! I have to say some of them look pretty new too!
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And quite a variety at that!
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How I love Bradrona and the awareness/money it raises!
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No pun intended with “raises.”
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🙂
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It didn’t start off as a breast cancer thing, but has certainly ended that way Cheryl. It certainly stops the passing traffic and draws a lot of attention to it’s status now.
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How cool is that fence. I didn’t know about it or we would have gone to look and leave our own donation in the tin. Next time…
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Next time you will know to look for it as you go through Cardrona Carol, I’m sure it will be there still.
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