LIFELINE OF THE LAKE

Documentary on the steamship TSS Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu. Passengers board ship up the gangplank, ferry departs. Views of Lake Wakatipu and Remarkables. TSS Earnslaw stops at a jetty and a water tank is lowered off the side onto the jetty. The Steamship stops at a jetty and cattle and goods are loaded onto the boat. A man unloads heavy sacks off a truck. Vehicles are lowered onto the deck by means of a crane. At Glenorchy sheep are herded onto the jetty then onto the boat. Sunset over the Remarkables from moving steamship.