Jared Lee - Photo Album - MacKenzie Country

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The pretty drive from Queenstown back to David & Karen's place in Ashburton took me right through MacKenzie Country in the heart of New Zealand's South Island
December 10, 2004

01-Cromwell Cromwell ... those giant fruits sure make me want to visit the town of Cromwell again!

02-Hwy8 Hwy 8, leading up through the middle of the South Island

03-Hwy8 Hwy 8

04-Sheep Grazing sheep

05-Hwy8 A beautiful day for a drive

06-LindisPassLupin Lupin in Lindis Pass

07-LindisPass The very dry region of Lindis Pass

08-Lupin Lupin

09-LindisPass Lindis Pass

10-LindisPass Lindis Pass

11-LindisPass Lindis Pass

12-SwanLagoon Swan Lagoon, in the central highlands of the South Island, near the town of Twizel

13-LakeRuataniwha Lake Ruataniwha, near Twizel

14-LakeRuataniwha Lake Ruataniwha

15-LakeRuataniwha-Mtns Lake Ruataniwha and the Southern Alps

16-RockyShore Rocky shore ... it is glacial rocks like those that have been ground up into a fine powder that is suspended in the central alpine lakes in the area that gives them all that amazing turquoise colour

17-LakePukaki Lake Pukaki ... Mt Cook is behind those clouds beyond the lake

17a-LakePukakiA Lake Pukaki

17b-LakePukakiB Lake Pukaki

17c-LakePukakiC Lake Pukaki

17d-LakePukakiD Lake Pukaki

18-LakeTekapo Lake Tekapo

19-LakeTekapo Lake Tekapo

20-LakeTekapo-Village The village of Lake Tekapo

21-LakeTekapo-ObservatoryHill Lake Tekapo, and Mt John ... the Gustavus Astronomy of the Southern Skies class, led by one of my physics profs, Chuck Niederriter, spent much of January Term 2005 up there at the Mt John Observatory

22-Mountains Mountains

23-Jared-LakeTekapo Self-portrait at Lake Tekapo

24-LakeTekapo Lake Tekapo

25-RoadsideLupin Roadside lupin

26-Alps Southern Alps

27-Gorse Gorse, a hedge-plant imported from Scotland way back when, that has now taken over the countryside, and is labeled by the NZ government officially as a noxious weed

28-Hog Traffic was slowing way down at this point, because there was a rather large hog laying (alive) in the middle of the road just outside the town of Geraldine ... it must've fallen off a farmer's truck

29-CrazySign Just one of many crazy signs the Kiwis came up with, not too far south of Ashburton, where David & Karen Strijbis (our family's friends) live

30-Canterbury-MtHutt Canterbury plains, and Mt Hutt