Pining for the Fijords

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March 31st 2006

Published: April 1st 2006

WARNING. THIS BLOG CONTAINS 10 ZILLION WATERFALL SHOTS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ‘‘Look’’, exclaimed Shaz ‘‘It’s a dead parrot!’’ ‘‘It’s not dead’’ said Alan ‘‘It’s just tired out after a long squawk.’’ (laughs). About 5 weeks ago we’d stopped at the side of the road to admire / photo a nice mountain view. As we got out of the car, Shaz spied the said (truly ... Read Full Entry

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Al, Shaz & Beth

Eggs on Legs

Hullo!! We did a big fat trip a wee while ago covering Bonnie Scotland (our home), France, Spain, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and China. Then we came home and had a lovely baby girl called Beth and Alan went back to work. Beth is 14 months old now (I know - where does the time go??) and we haven't been anywhere exotic for yonks. Consequently we are now 'dormant bloggers' which makes us feel a bit dreary, so we better get our skates on and find some good places to visit and report on pronto!!.................... full info

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I'm going deeper underground...

As sung by the lovely Jay Kay. Anyway - this pic was taken 2kms underground in the tunnel leading to the bottom of the power station. It as really warm down there.

On the way to Milford

The road to Milford Sound

This is our boat for the Miford Nature Watch cruise

The Milford Sound on a lovely sunny day.

Bottlenose dolphin #1

LAndslides caused by seizemic activity in Milford Sound.

The quake that caused these landslides measured 7 on the richter scale.

Metallic striped rocks

Featuring, copper oxide, manganese, and crystalised quartz.

A Fault Line

Never seen a real life fault line before. Are you impressed?

Alan looking cheery in the Milford Sound

Bottlenose dolphins #2

Bottlenose dolphins #3

Shaz watching for the waterfalls, Milford Sound

Fur seal sunbathing in the Milford Sound

Big waterfall half way along Milford Sound.

Can't remember what it is called, but will check and add details when we do the update.

Eggs in Milford Sound

Note we usually do our 'couple' shots ourselves as people freak when we hand them our camera. Its the easiest camera to use, but they get feared because of the size of the lens. Ooh er.

Lovely waterfall at the start of the Milford.

Sci-fi waterfall #1

Kayakers below a waterfall, Milford

Bottlenose dolphins #4

Swimming below our boat. They were so cool,and did lots of gymnastic leaps out of the water. We were too slow to catch this properly on film though.

For scale purposes.

Not a good photo, however we wanted to show you the scale of the size of the mountains on either side of the fjiord. Check the teeny boat below the waterfall. This is the same size or thereabouts, of our boat.

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