ilanarama: me in Escalante (yatta!)
Ilana ([personal profile] ilanarama) wrote2009-04-05 04:52 pm
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the last of the NZ photos, OMG

I have uploaded our photos from the Queen Charlotte Track, Wellington, and the Coromandel Peninsula, added 9 photos to the Waitomo (black-water rafting) set, and added 6 photos to the Tongariro (Mount Doom) set.

A few of my favorites:

Heading into Mordor (well, it looks like it, doesn't it?) in Tongariro NP:
Heading into Mordor

Ship-like rock in Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel:
Nifty rock, Cathedral Cove

My husband is being eaten by the jungle:
Help I am being attacked by supplejack

Wellington Weebles Wobble but they don't fall down:
Wellington Weebles

Camping on Queen Charlotte Sound
View from the camp shelter

[identity profile] barkley.livejournal.com 2009-04-06 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
That looks like an incredible place to camp.
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[identity profile] ilanarama.livejournal.com 2009-04-06 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, if you go to NZ, the Queen Charlotte track is specifically set up for People Who are Really Not So Into Backpacking. You take a boat to one end of this mountain-ridgy peninsula, and then hike back over 4 days, but if you want you can have your gear shuttled by boat so you only have to carry a daypack, and there are a few fancy resorts and stuff so you don't have to actually camp, either. Either way, you get the views from the ridgeline down to the water on both sides.