Winter 2004

In winter 2004, I made a final 2000km road trip through New Zealand's south. These are some of the photos that I took.

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Could someone please stop staring and lend me a hand with that tower?

Lake Wanaka

a different part of Lake Wanaka

Queenstown panorama in winter

Almost the same panorama a couple weeks earlier - photo courtesy of Karsten Sperling

A part of the Kepler track

Lake Wakatipu (?)

View from Cardrona towards Queenstown

typical west coast scene

vegetation near Knights Point, on the west coast

Franz Josef Glacier

A misleading picture pretending that I can ice climb; in truth, the ice was quite horizontal right below my feet

View from Franz Josef Glacier down into the valley

Luke and Tarpan, in front of two icy pillars

Our guides, carving fresh steps into the ice (soon afterwards, they noticed that they had led us into a dead end).

Our guide and two of us walking through a small crevasse.

Our party on the way down.

One of our guides.

Me walking down the comfy steps on the steepest part.

Lake Matheson

...again...

once more Lake Matheson

Lake Matheson panorama

Lake Mapourika

panorama

typical west coast scene

seriously, it always looks this beautiful!

slightly rough sea, and some rocks

Near Punakaki - note the pancake rocks (layered limestone rocks) in the upper right of the picture.

Some of the larger waves' water was propelled all the way up this 30m vent and then squirted out of the top opening. Also see a videoclip (DivX , 3 sec, 328 KBytes).