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  • Te Anau to Dunedin

    [image:508,left]After the beauty of the South Island’s Alpine regions, the remainder of the trip was a bit of a let down. The rolling country grasslands just could not compete with the magnificence of the mountains, forests and lakes. We left Te Anau and drove westwards to Dunedin, passing through small towns and sheep farms, not…

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  • Queenstown to Te Anau and Milford Sound

    [image:462,right]We had a lot of fun in the morning exploring quaint and historical Arrowtown. It’s far prettier then Queenstown and we regretted not finding some dinner there the previous night, for there looked to be some very reasonable eateries. [image:463,left]Our next destination was Te Anau at the foot of a lake of the same name.…

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  • The Glaciers to Arrowtown

    [image:395,left][image:397,right]If yesterday belonged to the Elves, then today it was Orcs and Men. We departed our motel early, driving past the townships towards our first stop, Franz Josef Glacier. Throughout the morning, Howard Shore’s music for the Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers provided an appropriate soundtrack to the scenery outside. As we…

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  • Work begins

    Work begins again for the new year.

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  • New Years Day

    Happy New Year!

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  • Happy New Year

    Welcome to 2004!

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