Goodbye New Zealand!
Monday, 8 June 2009
Day 87 - Weds 3rd June: Cathedral Square, Christchurch
With this giant chess board, Christchurchians must be pretty keen on the game - but it was all a bit too much for this chess fan.
Day 86 - Tues 2nd June: The International Antartic Centre, Christchurch
This might not have been the best photo I took today (as that was prob a pic of the lights outside the hotel I was staying at: Hotel So), but this place did give me one of my fave facts so far: Antartica is the world's highest, windiest, coldest and driest continent. FACT!
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Day 85 - Mon 1st June: Kaikoura
I tried to go whale watching in Kaikoura today, but it was way too windy for the boats to go out. This is the closest I got: a mural outside the local library.
Day 84 - Sun 31st May: Drove up to Kaikoura...
...but didn't take any pics today. Here's a recent-decent from yesterday - taken outside the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Day 83 - Sat 30th May: Chalice sculpture, Christchurch
Here's a pic of an 18m tall sculpture that's in Christchurch's Cathedral Square. They put it up to celebrate the new millennium back in 2000 and the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Christchurch and Canterbury by the Canterbury Association. Fact hunting fans should point their mouse in this direction: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/square/Chalice/About.asp
Day 82 - Fri 29th May: The World's Biggest Jersey, Geraldine
Spent most of today in transit from Queenstown to Christchurch, but we did stop over in Geraldine for lunch. The town's claim to fame? They've made the World's Biggest Jersey. You can even buy a postcard that looks exactly the same as this picture. Woo-hoo(!)
Day 81 - Thurs 28th May: Queenstown
Was at a bit of a loose end this evening, so went out to get some long exposure snaps. Here's a tree...with traffic going past. Ooh arty.
Day 80 - Weds 27th May: Underwater, Milford Sound
Rather than post up yet another pic of water with hills, here's the view from underwater at Milford Sound (via their underwater observatory). Bad note taking on my part, as I have no idea what kind of fish this is. Marine biologists love the Sound as fish seen reasonably close to the surface here would normally live in much deeper water out at sea.
Day 79 - Tues 26th May: Lake Te Anau
I know, I know....it's another picture of another lake but they have shedloads (I doubt that's the correct collective noun) of lakes out here. This one's Lake Te Anau and this office must get better views than those available at Tachbrook Business Park, Leamington Spa
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