A few bays visited today also Port Underwood Road including Oyster Bay, Robin Hood Bay and Whites Bay. Enjoy.
Robin Hood Bay
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Kenepuru Sound
Kenepuru Sound is part of the Marlborough Sounds on the northern end of the South Island.
Today started out miserable and overcast, but by noon the clouds were clearing and the scenery on the improve. This is The Doc’s last day based at Picton.
The Doc has been told a sound is different from a fiord. Sounds being eroded by rivers and then melting ice raises the sea level and floods the sound. A fiord in contrast is eroded by a glacier. As a general rule fiords are much deeper than sounds.
Yesterday he did the mail boat through the Marlborough Sounds, pictures for another day. Today you get a few explorer photos of Kenepuru Sound. Enjoy.
Sand textures from Cable Bay near Nelson
A few textures from Cable Beach, the dark areas being rutile. Plus some naturally occurring fractals created y the outgoing tide.
NZ travels so far
An updated map of The Doc’s New Zealand travels so far. Only 2 weeks left.
The Doc made a choice not to explore the North West due to weather, so he is now exploring the North East of the South Island instead.
Pancake Rocks
Pancake Rocks and Blowhole is a limestone formation that is layered like, you guessed it, pancakes. Geologists do not completely understand how this happens. A rare event. The blowhole was to the left and is out of frame.
Findmespot – not
Well the SPOT Tracker is not working very well in NZ. Must be very few satellites orbiting this far south.
The Doc noticed on the SPOT NZ site you cannot use the SPOT as a personal locator beacon in NZ. That tells you something about reliability.
Greymouth
No lakes today, but still water. The Doc has been exploring north of Greymouth around Pancake Rocks and the Blowholes. The Doc leaves Greymouth tomorrow and heads further north.
Here is a beach shot using some of the techniques learned in the Photography Course. It was overcast, poor light and seamist around. Really bad conditions to take photos, but this image has minimal post processing and turned out well for such conditions.
This beach is a Blue Penguin Colony (known as Fairy Penguins in Australia).
Lake Mapouriki
Lake Mapouriki just north of Franz Joseph Glacier Township.
Lake Matheson
A view of Lake Matheson looking back on the southern Alps, Fox Glacier and Mt Cook (obscured by the cloud).
Textures of NZ’s West Coast
Currently rained in at Fox Glacier, so some textures from the West Coast of New Zealand including bark, rocks, sand, red lichen and some green things.
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