We were at Mount Cook around this time last year and it was rainy with grey skies and drizzle. There wasn’t much to see at all.
Today it was sunny and a perfect day to head up past Lake Pukaki to the village of Mount Cook. We did a bit of walking to a point where we could see the Tasman Glacier and I spent a lot of time taking photos of this splendid location. What a perfect day!
I was extremely disappointed to find the my camera card was corrupt on the day that we drove to Milford Sound from Te Anau. This is one of the most scenic areas of New Zealand. However, patience has its virtues. When I discovered that there were no images on the memory card, I immediately removed […]
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On Tuesday 22 February 2011, Christchurch was badly damaged by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, which killed 185 people and injured several thousand. The earthquake epicentre was just 10 kilometres south-east of Christchurch’s central business district, only a few months after a previous quake in September 2010 . This was just a few months after our […]
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Saturday was the last of our long driving days as we returned to Christchurch. Our trip also completed the central loop of our ’figure eight’ tour of New Zealand’s south island – a driving trip of 4,250 kilometres. We started the day by driving down the west coast from Punakaiki through Greymouth to Kumera Junction […]
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just beautiful. sad about C’church though, will the old be repaired as in Napier do you
think?. Safe at F’town. RKB @ cricket today. see you soon