The Moeraki Boulders are a geological rarity. They occupy a beach north of Dunedin. Volcanically formed (similar to geodes), they roll onto the beach when the surrounding sand is eroded away.
Archive for May, 2005
Here is our campervan, which we’ve had for the past 5 days. It allows us to see all the most gorgeous scenery in N.Z. It’s pretty cute, actually, and easy to drive.
We stopped at this beach front car park to enjoy the full moon rising over the South Pacific Ocean.
Akaroa is an adorable French village on the Banks Peninsula on the east coast of N.Z. The peninsula was an ancient volcano. The harbor you see below us was once the cone of the volcano!
In Christchurch, we went to the international Antarctic Center. Here is Paul in the “Antarctic Room” where temperature and wind replicate the conditions in Antarctica! It didn’t seem that cold to us… turns out we were experiencing an Antarctic summer. Wouldn’t want to be there in the winter!
Here we are with the blow hole of a sperm whale and the Kaikoura Ranges in the background.
How’s this for a photo? It’s nearly the exact shot that appears on the cover of the Lonely Planet guide to N.Z.!
Rugby is clearly the most popular sport in New Zealand. Lowly soccer players are reffered to as “round ballers” and “sissies”… ah, the disrespect. Well, if you can’t beat them, you might as well join them! No, I have not taken up Rugby as a hobby, nor has Shannon (although women play with the same [...]
Christchurch was settled by the English and is the largest city on the south island. Purphaps its not a fair evaluation of Christchurch, or the English who settled there, to say that the weather was purposley designed to make the settlers feel right at home. It was rainy, foggy and downright wonderfully like a beautiful [...]
At last we left you all eagerly awating our next post we were in Bleheim still. It was may 17th… how can we have been so unorganized not to have written since? Well, I am sure you can all understand… Our travels out of Blenheim found us on a train heading down the eastern coast [...]
