søndag 20. januar 2008

Queenstown


Approaching Queenstown
In the Rafters Camp
Evening sun 1

Evening sun 2

View from the camp.

The end of Dog Leg Run

Dinner time
Mari climbing with Holger and Melanie

fredag 18. januar 2008

Mt Cook to South Coast


A big dam on the way to the east coast

Duniden. The car was really dirty from driving on gravel roads in the Mt Cook area. The summer in NZ is the driest in 84 years!

Moaraki Boulders

Standing on septarian concretions

Me and Mari

Unborn boulder

An animal on Otago peninsula

Another animal

Mari

An animal

Watching albatrosses and seals

Field of grass

South Coast. Just a stone-throw away from Stewart Island


Nice stones on the beach
Windy


Nice clouds

mandag 14. januar 2008

Christchurch to Mt Cook


Being a regular tourist in the Antarctica Centre in Christchurch. Minus 18 effective degrees indoors.

Future destination

A nice swing in Tiarmu

A beach in Tiramu

Lake Tekapo

A chapel next to Lake Tekapo
This photo is not photoshoped. The colour is real!
Another beautiful lake. Pukaki!
Floating in front of Mt Cook
View from Mt Cook Village. Hanging glaciers. We arrived there the day after the Kiwi "Thor Heyerdal" Sir Edmund Hillary died.
The delta leading down to Lake Pukaki
Tasman Glacier. The largest in NZ
Mari is enjoyng the view
Ice, ice baby
A living thing
Some mosquitos, but not too bad
The day after - a walk to the terminal lake of the Hooker Glacier
First swingbridge

Hooker River - I knew I had to come back to paddle this - and so I did.


The DOC (Turistforeningen) does a great job in managing access to the wilderness

Finally, the Hooker Glacier and its lake
A big rock

fredag 11. januar 2008

West Coast to East Coast

The beach in Hoki


Pancake rocks

Fog in the jungle

Rock lover

Harris River

Strange formation

Harris Pass
A river

The beach in Kaikura