Travel Photography > Photos taken by LOJO
Queenstown is THE place to bungy.
I promised some photos of the area, so here they are (courtesy of Adam).
This plant is a major symbol for NZ. If we were taking the SATs, the answer to the analogy would read: "A silver fern is to New Zealand as the bald eagle is to the United States."
Some local yokel's idea of a sick joke. We were 0 for 3 this day as far as interesting tourist sights go.
Just wait...
Yeah, we were expecting a lot more too. Like trees. It ended up being rocks with tree ring-type lines on them. Another slightly disappointing trip. But the crashing waves were pretty cool to watch.
We were supposed to see hundreds of albatross here. We only saw one. And no penguins. A bummer of a trip.
The first one came down about 70 years ago, and this one went up in its place - with a new ornament on top - a concrete keg.
The open wood fermenting tanks are made from kauri trees - the NZ equivalent of red woods. They are the only brewery in the world that still uses wooden gyles.
Yes, we got to taste all those beers. The boys were very excited. They're officially Southern Men (something to do with the Speight's theme song...they keep singing it. Imagine.)
The only way I can explain Adam's face is to say he was upset that the chocolate fountain sprayed all over his shirt.
We stopped by these huge boulders on or way from Oamaru to Dunedin on the east coast of NZ. Geologists still havent really decided how these huge boulders were formed, but they do know they start off in the coastal cliffs, and appear as the less durable earth around them erodes away.
These are some of our newest friends, Alain and Caroline, whom we met back in Nelson on the apple orchard.