Milford Sound Road, from Te Anau, fully deserves its reputation as one of the world’s great drives.
Feb 242004
The Catlins
Sydney and New Zealand 2004
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Feb 222004
The Catlins. The South Island’s rugged south coastline. Two miserable days of hail, sleet and wind. Lovely.
Nugget Point lighthouse. Apparently you can see seals and dolphins from the lookout but they had departed to sunnier climes. Wish I’d joined them.
There is a petrified forest somewhere under here. I didn’t spend too much time looking – I was too scared of the advancing tide.
The Niagara Falls. A surveyor with a sense of humour then. Bit wasted on me – I’d spent 5 minutes out of the car getting soaked to get to them.
Slope Point, most southerly on the South Island. I forced a smile (grimace?) for the camera through the hail and wind.
Sandfly Bay
Sydney and New Zealand 2004
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Feb 202004
Sandfly Bay on the Otago Peninsular outside Dunedin. Home to the rare yellow eyed penguins which must have known I was coming because I saw nothing.
The Moeraki boulders north of Dunedin. They are a geological wonder and Maori sacred site which explains why coach loads pay they respect by climbing all over them and carting off any they can fit in their pockets. Although they do just look like some round rocks on the beach to me.
