New Zealand - South Island, From Authors Pass to bottom of island

Queenstown Gondola building with restaurant, bar, and more

Big Turquise Lake

Tasman Valley - entering Mt Cook National Park from the southeast

View from my campsite

Mt Cook is 2 vertical miles (10,000ft) above me

Bumble Bees were the pollinator of choice for these purple flowers (Lupines?)

Some scary looking peak behind Cook

The Bridge over the Gorge of Eternal Peril. I crossed it the day before with 70mph winds

I think these were between 6" and 12" across

a Kea on the summit of Avalanche Peak - next to Authors Pass. This alpine parrot can be a terror

Note the arrangement of their 4 toes - two front and two backwards

the only picture of myself taken in years. too bad it is a bit dark

Getting a prism effect or rainbow from the waterfall mist

No penguins seen on this trip, but they are here

Incredible west coast

Pancake Rocks

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