Travels in New Zealand, March/April 2002. More photos and detailed text can be found at
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lyvedon_way/nz/nz_descriptive.htmCopyright (c) 2002 Simon and Amanda Southwell
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Auckland
Nearly a third of New Zealand's population lives in Aucklandjust over 1...
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Te Whakarewarewa, Rotorua
full name is 'Te Whakarewrewatanga o te Ope Taua a Wahaio',...
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Geysers, Rotorua
The reserve has both geysers and bubbling mud pools, and the smell is...
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Wellington at Night
Our hotel had a great view over the harbour, which looks pretty at night. The...
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Wellington 'scene'
Wellington seems a lively place; smaller than Auckland but good shops...
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Wellington Harbour
We caught the Lynx ferry (seen leaving in the picture) to Picton on the south...
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Picton Marina
Picton owes its existence to the ferries and has little else. However,...
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Kaikoura
Kaikoura is a small town on the east coast of the south Island between Picton...
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Fur Seals, Kaikoura
There is a colony of fur seals (sea lions) just along the coast from...
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Sea Birds, Kaikoura
Both Turns and Gulls. The gulls had very red beaks.
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Whale spotting from the air
As all the boat trips were cancelled due to bad weather, we decided to chance...
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Sperm Whale
After a little while, and having flown in to a squall sitting right over the...
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Southern Alps, South Island
We went to Mount Cook settlement on our journey from Christchurch to...
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Mount Cook Settlement
Mount Cook settlement is little more than a hotel and a few hostels, with an...
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Flights to Milford Sound
On our second day in Queenstown, the weather cleared allowing us to take a...
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Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown
The picture shows lake wakatipu, a bit of Queenstown and the...
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Sutherland Falls
The mountains from the air are even more beautiful. Perhaps the most stunning...
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Milford Sound from the air
The landing at Milford was quite exciting. Coming high over the...
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Mitre Peak
The first striking feature, as we left the dock on a boat trip through the...
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Milford Sound Entrance
This picture of a lone boat evokes what the early visitors (Polynesian or...
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Stirling Falls
It is said (and we've seen the photographs) that in stormy...
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At Fox Glacier
Fox is a small town situated on a single street. Its backdrop is the peaks of...
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Helicopters, Fox Glacier
The main reason people come to Fox and its slightly bigger counterpart Franz...
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Franz Josef Glacier
We took a helicopter to view both Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers.
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Mount Tasman
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New Zealand
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