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"Balloons over Waikato" festival 2016. The weather was a mixed-bag this year, but on the morning of this shot the conditions were perfect for flying!
It's minus 8 and the rocks are slippery with ice, my hands are freezing but it doesn't matter, 'cos I'm very excited by the lighting and the wonderful view !
Picturesque Kaikoura is a town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, 180 km north of Christchurch. The town has a beautiful setting, as the Seaward Kaikoura mountains, a branch of the Southern Alps, come nearly to the sea at this point on the coast. There are many walking tracks up and through the mountains.
Kaikoura is a popular tourist destination, mainly for whale watching and swimming with or near dolphins. There is also a large colony of southern fur seals at the eastern edge of the town.
In this area many moons ago, the Moa roamed freely. A flightless native bird of New Zealand now extinct, standing over 3 metres tall. The Moa were a great food source for the indigenous Maori and Moriori people of New Zealand and their bones were used for tools.
South Canterbury, New Zealand
Waipapa Power Station
Waipapa Power Station is a hydroelectric power station on the Waikato River, in the North Island of New Zealand.
About 65 km from our home, we past right next to the Waipapa Power Station and took some photos ...
AND THIS UPLOAD CONCLUDES OUR HOLIDAY SERIES.......
25.12.2015 - 01.01.2016
And so our journey and holiday came to an end !!!!
Thanks for everybody's faves, wonderful comments and patients after looking at all of the shots!
We are sincerely grateful for having traveled and ariving home safely! Also for the opportunity to see so many places and take pictures to share with you on Flickr! Thank you once again!!!
Thanks to all who take the time to visit and comment on my photo stream....it's greatly appreciated. Also for all of the invitations to join or post my photos into groups!
We hopped on our chopper and headed out of Milford Sound which allowed us to see first hand the majesty of this magnificent natural wonder. With sheer walls towering 1,200 meters or 3,900 feet and plunging to the depths of near 1000 feet or 291 meters it's no wonder that Rudyard Kipling once call the sound the 8th wonder of the world. We will be back!
I took this shot from the open deck observation car as we made our way through the magnificent and ever changing South Island scenery. A shame about the blurred trees in the foreground, such are the hazards of photos from a moving train.
Karekare falls, on the west coast of Auckland at Karekare beach :)
8 shot panorama, again I used my red cellophane headlamp to give a bit of light, but changed the hue to give it a more natural feel.