Sunday, March 14, 2010

New Zealand - February 19 - out of the snow

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We debated traveling to see the "other" glacier - Fox Glacier. Ultimately, considering our limited time and what a fabulous experience we'd had already at Franz Josef (and, really, what more could you expect from a second glacier?) we decided to go to the lookout then push South.

The little off-road to the lookout and the path down to the look out were WAYYYYYYY better than the lookout. "That's it?" we asked a young man who was coming from the opposite direction. Yes, we'd seen the best view. There are no photos - and this doesn't even count as one of the photos I missed.

We did enjoy some spectacular views on our continued journey - including mountains,
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waterfalls,
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and forest trails.
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By far, however, the most exciting scene was something totally unexpected. Our road emerged once again at the seaside at Sandy Beach (Bruce Bay) and there stood for hundreds of feet a series of cairns. We added ours. Very simple. We're new at holy.
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We ended our day in Wanaka, home of the Cinema Paradiso - too late for the 6 PM showing of "Sherlock Holmes" and, as was to happen to us again and again and again in little cinemas across New Zealand, too unimpressed for a second (or third or forth or) viewing of "Avatar". We ate their pizza - very good - but were disappointed not to see the cinema itself, let alone enjoy a film from a car seat or comfy sofa. (One thing I'm sure of, however, is that the sofa would not have included a dog. New Zealand was very unfriendly toward dogs. Very.)
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1 comment:

Andrew said...

Couple the fact that we have one of the highest levels of cat ownership per capita, with this and you can see why, we're all under the control of our cat overlords!