20 Mar 2006 Oh, The Places I’ve Been (new zealand, photos by me)
Okay, I’ve been back less than two weeks and I’m almost done uploading pictures from my visit to New Zealand. It really was an amazing trip.This is the route I took, starting in Dunedin, and ending in Auckland 16 days later.
09 Mar 2006 pictures, pictures, pictures! (new zealand, photos by me)
It was quite a bit of work whittling down the hundreds I took to a still-volumous subset! And I have several panorama to post as well, should I manage to get some stitching software up and running.Links to photoset, slideshow.
07 Mar 2006 Sunburned in Umbrellaland (new zealand, vancouver)
Well, I made it back to Vancouver. I would have loved nothing so much as to stay in New Zealand another week/month/year, but I comforted myself with the certainty that I will certainly be taking another trip there one day, hopefully not too distant in the future.
03 Mar 2006 A Journey to the North (new zealand)
After leaving Christchurch behind, we drove Lurch up to Picton and regretfully returned her.
27 Feb 2006 Back to Civilization! (new zealand, photos by me)
I’m sitting in a little coffee shop in Christchurch, across the street from the eponymous Cathedral.
24 Feb 2006 How to Order a Coffee in New Zealand (and Other Observations) (new zealand)
New Zealand seems to have much more of a cafe culture than Australia. Dunedin, for instance, is dotted with cool, funky little coffee shops and every town seems to have a few.
21 Feb 2006 A Tide With Artistic Aspirations (new zealand, photos by me)
On the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island lie The Catlins, a beautiful and remote landscape of beaches, cliffs, forests and millions of sheep.
20 Feb 2006 South of the 45th (new zealand)
I’m in the town of Invergargil now, on the very southern tip of South Island, and it really does feel pretty far south. The evening are long and the weather is a chilly 13 degrees with a pounding five-minute rain storm approximately once an hour.
20 Feb 2006 In the Land of Sheep and Uruk-Hai (new zealand)
The kiwis are funny and friendly, the weather is beautiful, and orc attacks are, at worst, infrequent.I’m in the little city of Dunedin right now, which is a mixture of modern and Victorian architecture built on a series of hills leads to a cliff-edged peninsula of rolling sheep pastures and little towns that look like they’ve barely changed in sixty years or longer…. We visited a Victorian castle (Larnach Castle) and then went on a tour of the breeding grounds of the rare Yellow-Eyed Penguin.
16 Feb 2006 Farewell, Canberra. Hello, New Zealand. (australia, new zealand, photos by me)
So long, Canberra, you bird-dominated and oddly silent little town.I went for a jog last night through the city center and saw maybe a dozen people…. The air was humid and smelled nice, and little blue birds fluttered through the park around Lake Burley Griffin.
31 Jan 2006 Well, I May Finally Have Something Worth Writing About (australia, me, new zealand)
Goin’ on a tripFar awayI am leeeeeeeeeeaving todayOn myRooo-oooo-ocket shipRock…. Ship.
28 Jan 2006 Glorious Pics of NZ (new zealand, photos not by me)
Ah, Flickr, you never let me down.