Rusty and I were itching to get out of Dunedin the weekend after classes ended, so we rented a car and drove up to Mount Cook National Park to do a bunch of dayhikes and stay in the YHA there.
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Benmore Dam
Benmore Dam, in central Otago-? We camped nearby on our way to Mt. Cook.
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Campsite
Realizing it'd be safer to find a place to stop for the night,...
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Ferns
Some of the ferns the typically underly the denser forests in Mount Cook...
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Zay at Mount Cook
While hiking up the track to Sealy Tarns, we had an excellent view...
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Moeraki Boulders
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Moeraki Boulders at Dusk
Some of the Moeraki Boulders at high tide.
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Mount Cook Lily
A specimen of the infamous Mount Cook Lily, growing next to a spring.
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Mount Cook Village
Mount Cook Village from the trail up to Sealy Tarns
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Mount Cook
Mount Cook from the road along the lake.
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Mount Cook!
A close-up of Mount Cook, taken from Hooker Lake. Do you see the face peeking...
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Benmore Lake?
The lake behind Benmore Dam, early morning, in central Otago.
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Benmore Dam and our car!
We did a quick dayhike near Benmore Dam ("to see what we could see")....
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Rusty and Mount Cook
Rusty checking the map at Hooker Lake, with Mount Cook in the background.
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Rusty and mountains
Rusty, on the edge of Muller Glacier, with a mountain ridge behind him
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Rusty
Well, THIS picture didn't scan well. Rusty, on our way up to Sealy Tarns,...
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Zay at the snowline
This was as far as we could go on the track up to Mueller Hut- we'd need...
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The path up to Sealy Tarns
This is looking at the path up to Sealy Tarns. Yes, it's extremely...
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Zay on a Boulder
A picture of me sitting on a "newly-born" Moeraki Boulder....
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Paradise Shelducks
A pair of Paradise Shelducks on Blue Lakes in Mount Cook National Park.
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Spring
Rusty, drinking from a spring we found bubbling up at the base of a...
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Paradise Shelducks
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Matagouri
A matagouri plant on the edge of one of the Blue Lakes. Matagouri is...
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Golden Spaniard
Another of the local prickly plants, this one is a female Golden...
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Rock-hopping
Bored with the little trail around the Blue Lakes, we decided to go...
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