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Mike's trip around the South Island
Our son, Mike, arrived a couple weeks ago for a five week visit. This blog post consists of photos he has taken. He flew from Sydney to Dunedin, and the first photo was taken from his plane window and shows the Southern Alps, west of Dunedin. He thinks Queenstown is on one of the lakes in the photo.
A friend of Mike's from Italy was visiting New Zealand, and they went on some outings from our house and then travelled around the South Island together for a few days. This first photo is one of the best penguin photos we've seen from the penguin-watching place near Dunedin. These are yellow-eyed penguins, and there's a baby in the little box. The parents are changing watches -- one stays with the baby at all times while the other one hunts for food. I should have cropped the photo in Photoshop. If you want to see the penguins larger, click on the photo and it will fill your screen.
They took an outing to a beach about an hour north of Dunedin near a town called Moeraki. The round rocks on the beach are called the Moeraki boulders, and no one knows how they were formed. Dave and I went there once, but the tide was too high to get good pictures.
Near Moeraki is a rocky beach called Shag Point where sea lions like to hang out. Below are a couple photos from that beach.
Mike and his friend drove to Milford Sound. The next two photos are on the road to Milford.
They had a sunnier day on Milford Sound than Dave had, so these photos have a really different mood than the ones earlier on this blog.
They also visited Lake Pukaki, which is glacier fed. That accounts for the beautiful color of the water in the next photo.
Lake Tekapo and Lake Alexandrina (where Dave visited last month) are close to Lake Pukaki. Below are some views of those two lakes.
The Church of the Good Shepherd is on Lake Tekapo. It's such a charming building.
A friend of Mike's from Italy was visiting New Zealand, and they went on some outings from our house and then travelled around the South Island together for a few days. This first photo is one of the best penguin photos we've seen from the penguin-watching place near Dunedin. These are yellow-eyed penguins, and there's a baby in the little box. The parents are changing watches -- one stays with the baby at all times while the other one hunts for food. I should have cropped the photo in Photoshop. If you want to see the penguins larger, click on the photo and it will fill your screen.
They took an outing to a beach about an hour north of Dunedin near a town called Moeraki. The round rocks on the beach are called the Moeraki boulders, and no one knows how they were formed. Dave and I went there once, but the tide was too high to get good pictures.
Near Moeraki is a rocky beach called Shag Point where sea lions like to hang out. Below are a couple photos from that beach.
Mike and his friend drove to Milford Sound. The next two photos are on the road to Milford.
They had a sunnier day on Milford Sound than Dave had, so these photos have a really different mood than the ones earlier on this blog.
They also visited Lake Pukaki, which is glacier fed. That accounts for the beautiful color of the water in the next photo.
Lake Tekapo and Lake Alexandrina (where Dave visited last month) are close to Lake Pukaki. Below are some views of those two lakes.
The Church of the Good Shepherd is on Lake Tekapo. It's such a charming building.
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