Glah-ciers or Glay-ciers? You decide
AKA the Mint and Austrian chap edition.
June 10th 2009 This end of the south island, we’ve had to retrace our steps back from Milford Sound to Te Anau and on to Queenstown. Just after leaving Queenstown while heading east, we take a left and head north to Wanaka. Wanaka is a nice little town next to a beautiful lake with the backdrop of mountains. In spite of the weather and the fact that it’s off season, it has a very holiday-ish air about it. Pe
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brooke hamilton
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Stone Stacker strikes again
How funny! We where in NZ last week and whilst driving from Cromwell to Oramama bound for Mt Cook Sth Is. we drove passed approx 10Kms of stacked stone piles like in your picture. There would have been hundreds of piles and none of them fell over even though there was a pretty strong cross wind coming through the flat. B