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April 8th 2007

Published: April 8th 2007

UntitledAngela and Peter Smyth Queenstown - Crazy Days After a sad goodbye at Christchurch airport we boarded our flight to Queenstown and Angela's dad boarded his flight to the UK. We seem to have taken so many extra, cheap flights on this trip - we will have to plant trees for the rest of our lives to make up for our carbon imprint. It is hard to pass up a 45 min flight with views of the mounta... Read Full Entry

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The Taieri Gorge Railway

Probably one of the world's most scenic short railway journeys made even better with cream teas.

Dunedin

New Zealand's Edinburgh

The historic Empire Backpacker's Hotel in Oamaru

Backpackers have been coming here since the turn of the last century. Great hostel - just like home.

New Zealand's major export

Wool warehouse

Earthquake Cliffs

Ang sitting on an Elephant (Rock)

The Elephant Rocks

Though we thought this one resembled a hippo more.

Rock!!!!

Moeraki Rocks

Stranded

After taking too long to set up the shot Pete found that his new wife was stranded till low tide

Low Tide finally allows Ang to escape her rock island

Running away like a girl

Big Boulders

Mud Boulders make their way out of the cliff face

The rare Yellow Eyed Penguin

Yellow Eyed Penguins

Not quite sure how they did it, but the penguins climb up the cliff to their nests near the walkway.

Smash Palace Car

This 13 year old car was cheaper to hire for the day than one of our pedal bikes - bargain. (Not sure if it was one or two cars, but it got up the hills ok.)

Where to next?

23rd April 2007

Debs
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Kiwi sighting
Pete and Ang - still following your trip. We only saw one (live) Kiwi and that was at the Mt Bruce National Bird Santuary about halfway between Wellington and Napier. We also saw about 15 other kiwis, but they were all stuffed in the Te Papa musuem in Wellington. Happy spotting.

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