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.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
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.
Haast Beach Sunrise
Sunrise at a dune lake behind Haast Beach, World Heritage Area on the West Coast of New Zealand this morning. Click to see full size.
The SausageMan Returns
In his exploration of the South Island The Doc happened upon Tuatapere, the self proclaimed Sausage Capital of New Zealand, nothing escapes the SausageMan! Here is the proof:
New Zealand West Coast
The Doc is now on the West Coast at Haast. After getting bad weather in Invercargill and then Te Anau he decided to make a run for the west coast. It paid off, good weather today and hopefully for the next few days as he makes his way to Fox Glacier, Franz Joseph Glacier and further north. Time to visit of the north part of the South Island, most of which The Doc has not seen.
Map of the places visited so far. Click to see full size.
Bread and All Blacks
Ciabatta – New Zealand for bread
A quote from Dallas during the Photography Tour, but oh so true. Everywhere you go anything other than white bread is called Ciabatta.
The Doc joked he would run naked down a New Zealand street if he saw another name used. So far The Doc and the New Zealand public are safe.
All Blacks
The Doc never thought it was possible for people to be more sport obsessed than Melbournites and the AFL. He was wrong, it is New Zealand and the All Blacks during the Rugby World Cup.
All Black Milk (yep a black plastic container), All Black Chocolate (Creamy Milk with black wrapper) and even All Black Weet-Bix (black box of course).
New Zealand will go into 12 months mourning if they lose the World Cup. The Doc was here many years ago during a previous loss.
No photo of the milk but here is the chocolate and the Weet-Bix pictures.
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