Friday, February 13, 2009

It's a Pine; No, It's a Fir; No, It's a Spruce; No, Wait,

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It's a National Park Service-Approved Cell Tower! Another reason it's good to be back. Much as I have been impressed by New Zealan...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bear Left; Right, Frog*

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Our new car is a Chevy Cobalt, newer and sportier than the Millennium Bongo, more fun to drive, but it has no bed. And let me take this oppo...

Repatriation

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Take-Off View of Diamond Head Medium Island Lekeleke Burial Grounds, Keauhou Kona Coast View Welcome to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; But ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

AKL-NRT-HNL

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Auckland-Tokyo/Narita-Honolulu. Actually it's not as bad as it sounds. Or perhaps we have learned how to do this sort of thing: plenty o...
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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Adieu, New Zealand

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We're back in Auckland now, packing furiously for our 9:15 flight tomorrow morning to Tokyo, then after a brief lay-over at Narita, to H...

Speight's Brewery

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Most important of the Dunedin sites we visted was Speight's Brewery. Even before deciding to go there, we noticed people queuing up just...

Done Edin

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Yes, But Can You Buy a Bottle of Highland Park in This Town? Or a Tin of Rattray's Smoking Mixture? The Old RR Station; Flemish As Well ...

To Dunedin, Otago

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The drive to Dunedin veered back inland most of the way, although it was not without interest, including the largest shoe-fence (or shoe-any...

Seascapes

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After the penguin encounter we drove around Molyneux Bay and up, on foot, mostly, to the 1870 lighthouse and its incredible views of the coa...

Penguins!

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Penguins! This One Just Emerged from the Sea Drying-Off; Acclimatizing: We Can Relate... Later, as dusk approached, we drove out to Nugget P...

The Catlins: Slope Point

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Surf City; Click to Enlarge and See Surfers Jurassic Log Slope Point: As Far South As We Are Going Slope Point, Stage Right Stage Left From ...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Henry the Tuatara

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Southland Museum, Largest Pyramid in the Southern Hemisphere, the Book Said (built by Cheops III?) Henry; He Moved Twice While We Were Wat...
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Friday, February 6, 2009

Bluff

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Both Bluff and Invercargill are treated poorly in the "Footprints" guidebook we are using. We found both to be of interest, althou...

To Invercargill

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Beach at Blue Cliffs We packed up and left Te Anau Wednesday. It has beeen our base of operations for all three major tramps on the lower...

Kepler Tramp: High Road/Low Road

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We divided forces for the Kepler Tramp. Vicki's knees needed a lighter work-out and definitely not the 3,000 foot ascent to the Kepler...
Monday, February 2, 2009

Remedial Routeburn

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Mirror Lakes; Click to Englarge and Read the Clever DOC Sign in the Center Christina Peak, from Key Summit Another Peak in the Vicinity Aote...

Routeburn Tramp; Or, There and Back Again Via Bus

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The Routeburn Track, another of New Zealand's “Great Walks,” encompasses parts of two national parks, Fiordlands and Mt. Aspiring, and, ...