In 2013 Real Journeys purchased a 155 hectare site it had previously leased at Walter Peak on the far shores of Lake Wakatipu and embarked on a major land restoration project. In 2015 the company was awarded a Department of Conservation (DOC) Certificate of Appreciation, for its role in clearing the land of vast areas of invasive wilding pines that threaten the Queenstown and Central Otago landscape, and replacing them with native bush and grassland.