New Zealand South Island
Kaikoura, Marlborough, Nelson, Kahurangi, Lewis Pass
February 2006 - Thumbnails link to larger images.
an albatross taking off
a weta
This trip turned into something of a wildlife extravaganza. In Christchurch we visited the zoo; in Kaikoura we went swimming with dolphins and cruising with ocean birds; we encountered weka and weta in Kahurangi National Park; and we visited the gannet colony at Farewell Spit.
Kaikoura
Camilla attends a phylogenetics conference- Christchurch to Kaikoura
- Mt Fyffe - Kowhai Saddle
- swimming with dolphins
- around Kaikoura
- albatross encounter
the Treasured Pathway
Marlborough and Nelson- Blenheim
- Havelock
- Nelson
- Motueka
- Flora Saddle - Kahurangi National Park
- Collingwood and Farewell Spit gannet colony tour
Lewis Pass
- day walks
My previous trips to
New Zealand were to
Westland and the Southern Alps,
Otago, Southland, and Fiordland,
and Auckland, the Waikato, Coromandel, and Tongariro.