Belated photos

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The bug in the site has been fixed apparently so here goes...the first few are from the waterproof camera - so cover the sea kayaking trips on Doubtful Sound, Milford Sound and Okarito Lagoon.

By the way, the car is now fixed, cleaned up and on sale. Nearly $400 that has cost me this morning and haven't sold the car yet! Apparently it is not a good time (end of summer) but now I just want to get something reasonable (?) for it, and then put the whole thing down to experience / lesson etc. It has certainly reminded me how affected I can get if I think I have made a mistake (!) or think that "it's not fair" (!!). Anyway, I won't be buying/selling cars again for a long time.

I am really looking forward to a few days on Great Barrier Island next - I head over on Sunday evening and come back next Saturday. I will be off sea kayaking with Wayne who I met when I was out there last time.

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Photos

Doubtful Sound
so called because Captain Cook had a look at it and was doubtful he could get out of it again due to prevailing winds etc. Actually not a sound it's a fjord. Of course you all know the difference!

Sailing our sea kayaks
this was fun and saved our arms.

Me and Liz in our kayak
A good bunch of people made the two days even better.

And then the dolphins came
this made my day

Milford Sound
Kayaking here was more challenging...

Milford Sound
ah yes, that last picture didn't have the water in it, oops.

Okarito
Kayaked here on my own. I got the hang of steering after some good slalom moves.
Mount Cook and Tasman etc in the background.

White heron
Only about 150 of these left. This one flew over the top of me and landed a couple of metres away - very lucky, especially as I only had the waterproof point and shoot camera.

Rest stop at Okarito
My river / lagoon navigation needs improving.

Me at Lake Wanaka
stayed at a campsite right by the lake here - great setting.

Lake Matheson
great views & reflections near Fox Glacier on the west coast

Water
on the drive across to the west coast somewhere on the Haast Pass.

Fox Glacier up close
walked up here on my own. Did the glacier hike on Franz Josef.

This was a tight squeeze
one of my group - not me - it was a bit of a wriggle to get through here.

Getting about on Franz Josef
One of my group - Tony I think (Tony, Erica and Julia - we had a nice hot chocolate after all this!)

Looking up
it looked like burnt meringue

Kaikoura
200-300 dusky dolphins to watch and swim with

And still more...
trying to catch them mid leap or somersault - not easy! only found the repeat shutter setting after I was back on dry land. doh!

And their bigger relations
2 sperm whales who have just 'blown'

Comments

[sandra]

fantastic!
only thing I wouldn't have done would be to crawl through that narrow ice corridor!