Legend of the Seeker, falls apart when you know where

I don't like fantasy, I'm the Kiwi who hasn't seen LOTR, but watched the first ten minutes of Legend of the Seeker as it followed after Top Gear.

The opening chase scene was dramatic but fantasy fell apart when reality intruded. They started somewhere in the Paradise Valley (past Glenorchy, near Queenstown) and finished the chase at Bethells Beach near where I live. The horses were going fast but those locations are something like 1,600km apart.

I know it's fantasy, I know those locations were supposed to be near each other in the film's fantasy world but reality gets in the way.

Distance between photos: 1,631 km