Sunday, April 19, 2009

Photos


Here are photos from New Zealand!  Some of them are hard to see because the size, but if you click on the picture you can seen them bigger and more easily!! 


Rare blue skies on the Milford Track.


Beautiful day two of the Milford Track.


BUNGY JUMPING!!


At least if the bungy would have broken I would have landed in beautiful blue water.


These pictures are a little out of order, but this is pre-jump!


Beautiful Queenstown.


At the top of the gondola in Queenstown.


Sheep, sheep, and more sheep! New Zealand has over 34 million of them!!


Lake Te Anau, before the hike began. 


These rocks were covered in Red Algae, but the color was actually neon orange.  Very cool.


The water is so clear and clean!  We could drink straight from all the streams, and it was better than any water I've ever tasted.


Swimming in Prairie Lake with Gray and Nels.  Nels and I, being from Minnesota and Wisconsin, didn't find the water cold at all...NOT!!


Almost to the top! That's a glacier on top of the mountain.


Monument at the top of the MacKinnon Pass in honor of Quinton MacKinnon.  Quinton was the first explorer to reach the pass in 1888.


MacKinnon Pass!


Gray, Rachel, and I made it!

Looking back on where we came from.


Oh you know, just falling off a cliff.





Notice how turquoise the water is! It's that color from the glaciers.


4th morning when it was raining like crazy. Waterfalls formed on the side of the mountains.  These were not there when we went to bed.








On the boat in Milford Sound!


Milford Sound.


Group of youngsters! Back row: Jane, Me, Ollie, Gray, and Josh. Front: Rachel and Nels 

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