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New Zealand: Land of Geysers and Greenstone

January 2009

South Island

 

Prof. Tom Brooking tells us of
"Dunedin and its Scottish Settlement"

 

the fire escape on our Dunedin hotel

 

toured the University of Otago

 

 

More Photos of the Otago University

 

learned about the Albatross at the Albatross Center

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explained the big gun at Fort Taiaroa

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meat pie and drink for our $10 lunch

 

bird colony viewing on Taiaroa head

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visited Purakaunui Falls

More Photos of Purakaunui Falls

 

box lunch along the way

 

viewed the ocean

 

met John and Joan Hopcroft, our host family

 

viewed their 64 cow rotary milking stand

 

John explaining the dairy business

 

short walk on the Kepler Tract

 

guided tour of the Glowworm Caves

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Ray Willett gives his
"Milford Track Memories"

More Photos of Te Anau

 

picking up our box lunches for the Doubtful Sound adventure

 

Dave Kerr with the Captain on the boat

More Photos of Doubtful Sound

 

back on the boat

 

went to the Fiordland Cinema

 

Dr. Trevor Chinn tells about
"Glaciology and Climate Change in South Island, New Zealand"

More Photos of Queenstown

 

Nurse Louise attending to Richard's Boo-Boo

 

aboard the TSS Earnslaw

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approaching the Walter Peak Station

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feeding the sheep

 

preparing to sheer the sheep

 

got "The Big Picture"

Photos of Arrowtown  Bungy Jumping  Wanaka

 

another box lunch on the beach

 

coming back from the glacier

Photos of  Fox Glacier  Franz Joseph Glacier

Franz Joseph Glacier by Helicopter  town of Franz Joseph

 

Lamb Shank dinner
my favorite food taste of the whole program

 

Greenstone in Greymouth

More Photos of Greymouth  Ross Goldfields

 

aboard the TransAlpine Express to Christchurch

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More Photos of Christchurch

 

Baden Norris provided a talk and acted as a guide to the
Antarctic Exhibit of the Canterbury Museum

More Photos of the Antarctic Exhibit and the

Canterbury Museum

 

the controversial "undercooked" fish lunch
at Annie's Wine Bar

 

Margaret Copland as an Anglican Immigrant

 

Margaret Copland as a Catholic Immigrant

 

visited Lincoln University

More Photos of Lincoln University

 

Banks Peninsula

More Photos of the Banks Peninsula

 

Lindsay Johnson
showing the clothing necessary for an interior Antarctic visit at the
International Antarctic Center

 

meeting the Blue Eyed Penguin

 

saying Goodbye to Doug Frost, our bus driver

 

farewell to New Zealand

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