Photos : New Zealand South Island

Taking advantage of an extended ski season

(Mt. Hutt, Canterbury - 17/10/06)

Ali looking out to the Tasman Glacier
(Aoraki/Mt. Cook National Park, Canterbury - 18/10/06)

Isn't it strange how you keep bumping into the same people when travelling?

(Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park - 20/10/06)

Contemplating whether following Ali around shops qualified him as an experienced tramper?
(Hollyford Valley, Fiordland National Park - 20/10/06)

Overlooking Lake Whakatipu & 'The Remarkables' range
(Queenstown, Otago - 21/10/06)


Mt. Tasman & Mt. Cook reflecting in Lake Matheson
(Nr. Fox Glacier, The West Coast - 22/10/06)

"No worries - I think if I let go I'll be able to touch the bottom.........

........oh bugger!"

....and that was the last we saw of Steve until the glacier spat him out, but undeterred Ali soldiered on with the glacier hike
(Fox Glacier, The West Coast - 23/10/06)

"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."

- David Henry Thoreau

'The Pancake Rocks'
(Punakaiki, The West Coast - 23/10/06)