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im trying to get ready for the holidays...
really i am ....
it scares me .....
it comes and goes so fast.....
We left Queenstown to make our way to Milford Sounds. Stopped in Te Anau for morning tea and to buy some lunch for our day trip. We we will be staying at Te Anau for the night.
Arrived at Milford Sounds just in time for our boat trip on the 'Milford Sound Nature Cruise" on the 'Milford Marner': For More Info: www.realjourneys.co.nz/en/experiences/cruises/milford-sou...
Day five of our fast trip around the South Island with my friends from the UK. November 5, 2013 New Zealand.
Milford Sound (Māori: Piopiotahi) is a fjord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island, within Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world's top travel destination in an international survey (the 2008 Travelers' Choice Destinations Awards by TripAdvisor) and is acclaimed as New Zealand's most famous tourist destination. Rudyard Kipling had previously called it the eighth Wonder of the World.
Milford Sound is named after Milford Haven in Wales, while the Cleddau River which flows into the sound is also named for its Welsh namesake. The Māori named the sound Piopiotahi after the thrush-like piopio bird, now extinct. Piopiotahi means "a single piopio", harking back to the legend of Māui trying to win immortality for mankind - when Maui died in the attempt, a piopio was said to have flown here in mourning.
Milford Sound runs 15 kilometres inland from the Tasman Sea at Dale Point (also named after a location close to Milford Haven in Wales) - the mouth of the fiord - and is surrounded by sheer rock faces that rise 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) or more on either side. Among the peaks are The Elephant at 1,517 metres (4,977 ft), said to resemble an elephant's head, and The Lion, 1,302 metres (4,272 ft), in the shape of a crouching lion.
Milford Sound sports two permanent waterfalls all year round, Lady Bowen Falls and Stirling Falls. After heavy rain however, many hundreds of temporary waterfalls can be seen running down the steep sided rock faces that line the fiord. They are fed by rain water drenched moss and will last a few days at most once the rain stops.
With a mean annual rainfall of 6,813 mm (268 in) on 182 days a year, a high level even for the West Coast, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. Rainfall can reach 250 mm (10 in) during a span of 24 hours. The rainfall creates dozens of temporary waterfalls (as well as a number of major, more permanent ones) cascading down the cliff faces, some reaching a thousand metres in length. Smaller falls from such heights may never reach the bottom of the sound, drifting away in the wind.
Accumulated rainwater can, at times, cause portions of the rain forest to lose their grip on the sheer cliff faces, resulting in tree avalanches into the sound. The regrowth of the rain forest after these avalanches can be seen in several locations along the sound.
Taken From and for More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Sound
Any one interested in following our trip around the South Island.. here is a map: <a href="http://www.wises.co.nz/l/lewis+pass/#c/-41.801671/172.516537/8/"
Haas inline direct-drive spindles use a Haas-designed and -built magnetic encoder assembly mounted to the motor to precisely control spindle rpm, and provide closed-loop feedback for accurate rigid tapping.
I somehow managed to not upload the cross-processed photos from my recent blog about my newly-acquired Fuji GA645i...
A school bus fan gets pictures of one of two identical buses in use at a church in Huntington WV. A guy at the garage said the buses were originally used by a school district in Indiana, and they had consecutive VIN numbers.
Bjo chỉ muốn hét lên rằng:
"TỚ ĐANG RẤT .. RẤT HANH PHÚC "
Tớ đã sẵn sàng đón nhận mọi yêu thương, tớ sẽ không lưỡng lự, dắn đo suy nghĩ và từ chối nữa ... điều đó thật ngốc ! Dù mai sau có ra sao thì bậy h tớ đã sẵn sàng ...
"Người đã bước qua những rặng chông gai thì sẽ chẵng ngại đi tiếp trên con đường sỏi đá nữa đâu ^^ "
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Nhóc trên ảnh tớ làm từ sau khi xem ảnh của a Feng, rất rất lâu rùi ^^, thak a Feng nhé !
Cutlery for this evening's dinner!
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Photos from the 3rd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk. This is me getting ready in the staging lanes before my semi-final run in my Sanyo A Fuel Dragster.
My good wife gifted me with a new golf bag and a new electric golf cart for my Christmas ... wasn't I lucky!! Anyway, getting my bag in order and obviously I have to put new balls in my golf bag!!
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Bye, bye as I am leaving for my holidays today. I do not even know where I will be going exactly but you know the saying that good holidays change you for the better. We will see.
This is a typical scene in my house. Strange memorabilia - Joe Linsner made that mask for me based on a poem I sent him about Cinderella. I love the process of getting ready because I daydream and listen to music and get in touch with my femininity through the ritual of curlers and lipstick.