A journal documenting one incompetent man's adventures in New Zealand - in years to come, Lonely Planet will direct people to this blog as an example of how not to do it.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

It has come to pass

The planets have aligned, Saturn is in the twelfth house or some such bollocks, and I finally find myself at a decent computer with a fully charged camera, a USB cable and no new tales of woe and suffering to take up my time (watch this space though, because I've booked a six hour walk on Fox Glacier for Saturday. Six hours! Just imagine how many comedy falls I could fit into that timespan). Behold, then, the awesome glory of my holiday snaps thus far!

Oh, one quick point - some of the descriptions are a bit sketchy, because I can't remember exactly what the picture shows half the time. Whilst walking the Abel Tasman track, Melissa told me that she always takes a photo of a nearby signpost before getting a scenery shot, so she would know what it was. I laughed at the time, adding to the already vast list of reasons why I would never see her fully naked* (right underneath "the time I took off my t-shirt to go swimming in Bark Bay"), but damn me I think she might've been on to something.

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Somewhere on the Abel Tasman Track. Click here for a bigger version.

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The final day on the Heaphy. Big it up here.

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Gouland Downs on the Heaphy. Bigness.

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More Heaphy final day shenanigans. Big version (rapidly ran out of alternatives there, huh?)

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The Pancake Rocks on the West Coast. Big version.

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Peter's Pool in Franz Josef. Big version.

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The Franz Josef glacier from Sentinel Rock. Big.

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A fair bit closer to the glacier. Big version.

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Really close. Just as we arrived at the foot of the glacier a whopping great chunk fell off, causing many a "woo-yay!" and leaving the above view. Big me up!

*semi-naked was apparently compulsory.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

how is it you got all these pictures of big chunks of ice and rocks and none of Melissa with her tits out.

12:12 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who said I haven't?*

I had to make a choice between using her real name and supplying pictures, or relating the various tales of Swedish liberal attitudes, and chose the latter, no doubt to the disgust of you all.

*I haven't.

1:24 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ben

just so you will rest easy on your travels as you will no doubt have heard the general election is on 05/05/05.
therefore I will make sure your vote is cast as you would have wanted it.

(for the tories)

1:33 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Arrrgh!

9:15 PM

 

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