South Island across Cook Strait from Wellington - Tip Track to skyline- Wellington City New Zealand
Wellington, at the southern end of the North Isand of New Zealand, is a harbour city surrounded by high, folded hills, bisected by the Australsian Plate/Pacific Plate fault line. The thrust-up hills are steep! with spectacular ridgelines and amazing views. Look east and north and there is the expanse of the inner harbour, the harbour entrance, and the Tararua and Rimutaka ranges. Look south to the wild southern coast home to some of the fiercest winds in the world and the infamously rough Cook Strait.Look south-west and you can see the the snow-capped peaks of the South Island. The landscape varies from the last remnants of unmilled dense native forest featuring trees many hundreds of years old, to regrowing bush in areas earlier cleared for farming and timber, and open tussock grassland tops with rocky outcrops.
South Island across Cook Strait from Wellington - Tip Track to skyline- Wellington City New Zealand
Wellington, at the southern end of the North Isand of New Zealand, is a harbour city surrounded by high, folded hills, bisected by the Australsian Plate/Pacific Plate fault line. The thrust-up hills are steep! with spectacular ridgelines and amazing views. Look east and north and there is the expanse of the inner harbour, the harbour entrance, and the Tararua and Rimutaka ranges. Look south to the wild southern coast home to some of the fiercest winds in the world and the infamously rough Cook Strait.Look south-west and you can see the the snow-capped peaks of the South Island. The landscape varies from the last remnants of unmilled dense native forest featuring trees many hundreds of years old, to regrowing bush in areas earlier cleared for farming and timber, and open tussock grassland tops with rocky outcrops.