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April 29, 2008
Photos from the Coast
Some more photos from our March trip, including the Nile River Gorge near Charleston with it's bush train "Cecil" (our car's called Cecil too), and Shanty Town just south of Greymouth with a lot of historic mining miscellany.
Posted by conor at 2:44 PM
April 7, 2008
Warbirds over Wanaka
Okay, so I got a bit carried away, and pulled the trigger on about 700-odd shots at Warbirds. But I think I got a few nice ones, certainly enough for me to look forward to a few winter evenings rugged up in front of Photoshop. The event was great, well run, wide range of planes, etc, and even though the weather on the day we went wasn't great (and it was cold!), we had a great spot just beside the runway itself, and got to see a lot of the planes up close. We also headed up Mt. Irons nearer Wanaka itself on the other flying day, which gave us a different perspective on the planes and parachutists above the airfield.
Posted by conor at 6:25 PM
Late (great!) summer holiday
This year's holiday (well, summer holiday, since we've already got a holiday to the UK in August lined up too), was a bit of a tour round the South Island culminating in the Warbirds over Wanaka airshow at Easter. We started off by heading up to Golden Bay for nearly a week at Ligar Bay (same bay as last summer), which was great, and got us in a relaxed mood for the rest of the holiday. Then we spent a week camping down the West Coast, staying at Westport and Fox Glacier. Great weather for the Coast, and I was pleased to be able to get down to Lake Matheson to get some nice photos of Aoraki & Tasman reflected in the still waters of the lake - a beautiful spot. Then it was on through Haast Pass to Lake Hawea near Wanaka where we had rented a large house on the waterfront for 10 days. Among other things, Ildica & I had a great overnight in Brewster Hut, high above Haast Pass, with some beautiful weather, and a scramble up to the top of 2154m high Mt. Armstrong, where we had great views north to Aoraki, and south to Mt. Aspiring.
Posted by conor at 4:00 PM