Approaching the Pancake Rocks |
The Pancake Rocks are world famous and really amazing to see. There are blow holes there when the tide is up. |
Our missionary friends the Petersens from Hyrum, Utah who we spent two weeks at Christmas time traveling the south island |
Moeraki Boulders on the beach just before Dunedin ( some people think they are petrified dinosaur eggs) |
Albatross with a wing span of 12 feet |
T-Rex baby hatching from his egg |
One of our most favorite views from the Larnach Castle on the Otago Pennisula |
Larnach Castle gardens |
Elder Blackwell, Sister Petersen, Elder Petersen |
The one and only silver fern that is so famous in NZ |
The lighthouse on our hike out to Nuggett Point |
Nuggett Point |
The lighthouse at Nuggett Point |
Pounawea Falls just south of Dunedin, Spectacular!!! |
Florence Beach in the Catlins |
Fantail Falls |
The docks at TeAnau, where we spent two nights |
The boat we are going to ride on out to the Tasman Sea to see Milford Sound |
On the Juicy boat riding out toward the Tasman Sea |
Spectacular waterfall at Milford Sound |
We are a little obessed with waterfalls |
Water, water everywhere! |
Approaching the docks at Milford Sound |
Fields and fields of flowers driving back to TeAnua |
Gondolas with bikes attached so the riders can ride down the steep hill at Queenstown |
Queenstown in background |
Bungy jump at Queenstown (no thanks) |
Mossy tree trunks |
Blue Pools where everyone stacks up rocks |
Elder Blackwell skipping rocks at the Blue Pools |
Our contribution to the rock stacks |
Fox Glacier (we hiked up to with 100 yards of it) |
Close to the glacier |
Mt. Cook |
You think mosquitos are bad... you should try a SandFly bite! They are wicked!!! |
More of the west coastline of the south island |
Pohutukawa Tree, the Christmas tree of New Zealand. They bloom in December and when they bloom you know the green mussels are ready to eat...YUM! BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!! |