It is hard to adequately summarise a few months spent in this wonderful country. We did full loop of South Island and North Island. Following small flavour.
The definite no 1 highlight was our trip on Doubtful Sound and later on its better known neighbour Milford Sound in Fiordland in SW.
As we went out the mist was down. It slowly rose to reveal dramatic, high dark cliffs – it was like a scene from Science Fiction but an altogether wonderful experience.
Doubtful Sound
Milford Sound on a rainy day, like its Irish equivalent, it gets its fair component of liquid sunshine.
Christchurch
Lovely city – was our arrival point
Sheep Farming – very plentiful
Invercarghill in SW
Where the shopper had a very good retail experience in the shop attached to the local pelts factory.
Wow! View of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu
Great scenery, great fun – cable car, luge etc.
Franz Josef Glacier on west coast
Fox Glacier
Nelson
Wellington on NI
Reached by ferry from Nelson. A bit like stepping back in time – but a very pleasant experience.
Rotorua – thermals
Bay Of Islands
Auckland from Above
A most attractive city with its Art districts, cafes, etc.
