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nz_arthurspass_c9673.jpg Civil engineering and mountain road building masterpieces were commonplace in the Southern Aps on Highway 73 from the West Coast to Arthurs Pass. |
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Driving out of Arthurs Pass and heading back to the Canterbury plain is bound to stimulate the amateur geologist in anyone. |
nz_arthurspass_c9719.jpg Glacier footprints admired while leaving Arthurs pass. |
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nz_canterbury_c9768.jpg Postcard snapshot when back on the Canterbury plain after leaving the Southern Alps. |
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A domestic deer herd in the rain on our first day driving South out of Christchurch. We saw more deer than cattle on pasture during our trip. |
nz_christchurch_c9772.jpg Keith and I spent just a few hours touring Christchurch sites. Keith enjoys a coffee on Cathedral Square while I take tourist snapshots. |
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We walked through Christchurch's beautiful Botanic Garden as the Sun was sinking towards the horizon on an August Winter day. This poster reminded us that good timing is everything. |
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Fox Glacier: We came, we saw. The trip up through a ice-scored valley was more interesting than the glacier edge itself. |
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Lake Hawea on the highway from Queenstown to the West Coast. |
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| nz_milf_c9542.jpg We spent our full second day in New Zealand driving to and from Milford Sound and taking a tour boat ride. The gods of weather smiled upon us. |
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Milford Sound |
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Milford Sound |
nz_milf_c9621.jpg Milford Sound |
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Milford Sound |
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Milford Sound |
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Yank tourists on a tour boat in Milford Sound |
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Milford Sound |
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Milford Sound |
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Milford Sound |
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Shot from the highway to Milford Sound on a clear early morning after snowfall at higher elevation. Frost is on the valley floor. |
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Driving from Christchurch to Queenstown on our first full day showed us a lot of rain and snow and lovely Winter landscapes. |
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As we pulled into the Queenstown area, the clouds parted and the Sun and rain soaked sky blessed us with this spectacular rainbow. |
nz_queenstownremarkables_cx8915.jpg The edge of the airport was as close as we wanted to get to Queenstown. As we headed South on Highway 6, the Remarkables broke through clouds in good lighting. |
nz_roadginger_c9693.jpg Although a product of Australia, we didn't discover Bundaberg Ginger Beer until we were half way through our New Zealand trip. One sip of Bundaberg, and all American ginger ales and ginger beers now seem like frivolous and pathetically weak flavored sugar water. |
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Another postcard snapshot I couldn't resist as Keith and I drove back into Te Anau from Milford Sound. |
nz_westcoast_cx9107.jpg Dense rainforest comes to the beach edge on the West Coast heading North from Haast. |
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Bed rocks of a river draining into the Tasman Sea. |