more nz photos. Do you sense a trend?

[ilanarama]

I have uploaded 13 photos from Christchurch, Akaroa, and Sumner Beach, 10 photos from Nelson and Abel Tasman National Park, and 26 (awesome and amazing!) photos from hiking the Heaphy Track. That last set includes some cool bugs and birds and plants and fungi, for those of you into that sort of thing. And also me on a scary-as-hell swing bridge:

Comments

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

That bridge looks like the worst kind of scary magic there is. No way would you get me on it. I'd rather ford the river.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I totally get what you are saying, except there were FIVE of them, and the last three were across rivers you'd have to SWIM. It was pretty terrifying, especially when the wind blew hard.

And actually, there are, as it turns out, even scarier bridge types in NZ (http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1134386986053234488PbCJNK) than the 1-person swing bridges. Fortunately, none of the hikes we did used this kind.

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

There's not a chance in hell I'd go on that bridge. No way, no how.

[admires the hell out of you for the other bridges]

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Heh. Britt had wanted to do that Dusky Track hike, and I am glad, in retrospect, that it didn't work out, because OMG 17 of those walkwire bridges!

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

My balance has improved immensely with the weight loss, but a walkwire? Nuh-unh. No.

[shudders]

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

LOL, I was just going to say. I'd rather ford the river--I don't care if my oxen die!

[luzula]

Ooh, the mosses and bugs and stuff! *squints and wants to look closer up*

And yeah, we have similar bridges in the Swedish mountains.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I live in the desert, but even when I lived in a wetter climate we didn't have as many varieties and colors of moss. And the ferns, my goodness. The variety really stunned me.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, bugs and birds!

Regarding scary bridges, to misquote crisper, "That which does not kill me makes a cool photograph."

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee! So true.

[triestine.livejournal.com]

Damn, that does look scary! :(

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I got used to it, because there were quite a few. But the real long ones, when the wind was blowing, made me feel vaguely nauseated and I was very happy to get to the other side.