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The high peaks of Milford Sound. Walking about on the Franz Josef glacier.

with their feet to dislodge food.
Trip to New Zealand from p19 As I was setting up my tripod a passing cyclist shouted
to me “10 million people have already taken that shot”.
we drove onwards to Te Anau where we came to the I was too slow to respond, but later thought of some
end of another awesome day of photography and sight- good possible retorts. Anyway, to me photographs are
seeing. like snowflakes — no two are exactly the same, especial-
Saturday 12 April. We woke up in the town of Te ly in the mist. In the end I felt I had bagged a couple of
Anau, filled up with petrol at 7:30, and drove to Milford really good ones.
Sound. There were many misty mountains on the way We packed up and took the road back to Queenstown,
and I did my photographic nut again. We drove through stopping often to take photos up the Wakatipu lake. I
a 1 200m single lane tunnel (it took 19 years to construct could easily live in Queenstown — it's absolutely beauti-
and was opened in the 1950’s) — then dropped steeply ful. From there we again drove alongside the Wakatipu
through thick forest, stopping to photograph a raging lake, this time to Glenorchy. Snow covered mountains
river. The round trip by ferry to the mouth of the sound in the distance closed out the end of valley.
lasted 2 hours. The weather was stunning, with lenticular clouds in the
Numerous peaks, much higher than Table Mountain, from distance harbingers of a cold front. We heated soup for
which waterfalls were cascading hundreds of meters di- lunch at a quaint little bay.
rectly into the sea, towered above us. As we passed each We went back through Queenstown to take a new route
waterfall, a rainbow would magically appear for a few to Wanaka. We drove alongside a river lined with tall
short seconds. The pilot nosed the bow of the boat into poplars, which were in the throes of turning from green
the thick spray of one waterfall only meters from the rocks. to yellow. The river ran clear and deep blue, the sur-
On the way back to Te Anau the mist had lifted and the rounding landscape karoo arid and the vegetation very
scenery was less enthralling than it had been earlier in thorny. The drab colour of the hills contrasted strongly
the day. There is a moral to this. with those along the river. At The Camp at Lake Hawea
Sunday 13 April. Te Anau was decidedly colder and I photographed the setting sun lighting up the moun-
we arrived early at the water’s edge to catch the mist tains across the water.
before it lifted. It was mirror smooth, except for ducks, Monday 14 April. We woke up to a threatening sky,
heads down for minutes at a time, paddling the bottom but the rain had not arrived. We planned to To p21

Above: Lake Wakatipu, near Glenorchy. Right: The Bowen
Falls at Milford Sound.

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