snow frosted tree

Snow at higher elevations

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November 8th 2006
This morning we first went on an old fashioned steamer boat to cruise Lake Wakatipu. The Ernslaw took us to the other end of the lake to Walter Peak Station ( a sheep farm), a demonstration of sheep dogs working the sheep, and shearing a sheep was done for us. Then we had a barbeque buffet at the homestead house there. It snowed at higher elevations while raining where we were on the lake. Then w ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more