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| The next few days we spent cruising around these Fjords on the coast of New Zealand. This morning I happened to be in the gym as we were approaching the first, Milford Sound. It is kind of like driving towards the Rocky Mountains... you see this fjord in the distance, and figure you'll be there in a few minutes.... 2 hours later you get there. So this is the first picture, taken at around 6:30AM. |
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| See that little space between one mountain and the other mountain? That is where we are going... |
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| There, that looks like we might be able to fit! |
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| These mountains are 500,000 years old, and the drop is straight down about 500 feet under the water. |
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| The captain is going to try to get our boat close to this waterfall, so of course we have to stay on deck so we can get sprayed! This is definitely off course... luckily we hadn't yet seen pictures of the boat in Italy! |
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| This is about as close as we can get because of the two kayakers (you can kind of see them on the left), so this was a bit anti-climactic. |
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| I have about 100 pictures of the sounds we visited... Milford, Doubtful. and Dusky Sounds, which are part of Fjordland National Park. I won't bore you with all of them, but just know it is beautiful! |
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| After two days at sea, crossing the South Pacific and touring the sounds we are ready for some dry land... First stop in NZ... Dunedin. |
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| It was New Year's Eve, so the city is getting ready for some festivities. |
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| There is always time for a factory tour or two... first stop... Cadbury World. Inside they don't let you take any pictures... just know that they give out fresh melted chocolate samples in a cup and lots and lots of chocolate bars... |
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| After all of those sweets the kids were feeling hungry, so we stopped at the grocery store to get some fruit and crackers, and saw this... you are never far from home... |
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| Also interesting, you can buy dog food here in packages like cookie dough. Weird. |
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| Next factory of the day, Speight Brewery. |
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| ... where you can use the ladies and paraplegic toilet... |
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| In the early 1900s they were building this factory and one of the architects drew a barrel on the top of the smokestack as a joke. No one realized the joke until the building was done, and so the barrel is still up there :) |
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| After the tour, you get samples here, too. |
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| As we were walking back we found a place for you to work, Micki, if you ever want to move to Dunedin! |
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| New Zealand is very hilly. It is sometimes hard to appreciate how steep the roads are! |
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| After chocolate and beer we are ready to head back to a dinner buffet... and ready for our next stop... tomorrow. |
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