The Fall Trip (nyuck nyuck)

Travel
26/03/2008 Fly to Queenstown
27/03/2008 Drive to Glenorchy/Paradise (day trip) (aka Isengard)
28/03/2008 Drive to Invercargill/Bluff (southern most settlement)
29/03/2008 Drive Southern Scenic Route to Dunedin (Din Eydin)
30/03/2008 Drive to Otago Peninsula
31/03/2008 Fly to Auckland



Lake Wakatipu

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...is this a double-snatch block?

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TSS Earnslaw - olde time steam boat

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On Board

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to Glenorchy

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Mull Street, Glenorchy

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The Cow Scout

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LotR Territory

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Full on LotR territory

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Rohan methinks

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The Mythical CowFord

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I just like this...

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Mordor?

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"They're taking the hobbits to Isengard"

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"Oh! Thank you cow king"

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Isengard

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See...

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I think we found Fangorn

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Decided: Ford? = no

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Paradise

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to Fiordland

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yep... just really nice.

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Back in Queenstown, we ride a gondola.
This sums up our experience of the ride to the top.

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Result Set 1

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Result Set 2

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Ok, so it was quite steep... 37+ degrees

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We travel to Invercargill and Bluff... around the opposite side of The Remarkables range. Which are aptly named.

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'Sign' -Bluff, Southland, New Zealand

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The Southern Ocean,
AKA:
the Great Southern Ocean
the Antarctic Ocean
the South Polar Ocean

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Southern Ocean 2

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Marco....

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Polo...
No one will find me in the Southern Ocean
(in case you didn't get where I was going...
we were in the Southern Ocean... not the Pacific
or the Atlantic... the Southern... dig?)

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Definitely in my top 5 (of Oceans)

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Moving in to The Catlins

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'Sheep Dots' - The Catlins

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I've always liked Plate Tectonics

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THE Southern Most Point (of the south island)

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Let us admire some of the scenery around here...

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for scale

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Manly

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Veganboro Man

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Who likes Blue?

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Heaps of Sheeps

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Petrified Forest revealed at low tide

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Leaving the Catlins... and scenery behind

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Nugget Point Light House

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Nuggethenge

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Plate Tectonics

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'Refuel'
IRN-BRU, Made in Scotland from girders

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Otago Peninsula has narrow roads
right on the water
literally
like less that a meter from the edge

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I am watching the road...

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We're still very close, dear...

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From the top of...

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Lanarch Castle

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Albatross in Flight

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Home for the colony

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Hard to tell, but they are BIG

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This is my car now!
if he was really an Albatross... I might have given it to him

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Dunedin Railway Station (also home to Scotia whisky bar)

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'View from our room' - Dunedin, Otago

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Back home to Auckland...

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There are just too many photos to post... the landscape is so fantastic and so varied.