Category: Landscape Format

  • The walk between Stony Bay and Fletchers Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula is one of New Zealand's must-do activities.
  • The iconic Nugget Point and it's lighthouse (built in 1870).
  • A remnant of the last ice age, Lake Mapourika is located just to the north of Franz Josef.
  • Located on the drive from Queenstown to Glenorchy, this view nearly always causes you to crash your car.
  • One of the most photographed lakes in the world (and for good reason!); Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada.
  • A double rainbow and lupins in full bloom makes for a colourful scene at Lake Tekapo.
  • There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
  • Any icy start to the day at Lake Kirkpatrick, located in the hills behind Queenstown.
  • State Highway 80 takes you to Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park, which is home to 22 mountains reaching over 3,000m above sea level.
  • Named after it's distance from Greymouth, 13 Mile is probably best known for the Motukiekie Rocks, but there's way more on offer than that.
  • One of the many beautiful waterfalls in the Catlins Conservation Park, located in the south-east corner of the South Island.
  • It's easy to see why the famous author, Rudyard Kipling, described Milford Sound / Piopiotahi as the eighth wonder of the world.
  • In 1925 Lake Monowai was raised two metres to provide for a hydroelectric scheme; drowned trees remain on the water's edge to this day.
  • When the Tasman Glacier (New Zealand's longest, at 25 km) calves ice into its terminal lake, a winter wonderland is the result.
  • This view up the Hooker River towards Mueller Lake, in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park, is obtained around 20 minutes walk in on the Hooker Valley Track.
  • The Church of the Good Shepherd, surrounded by invasive weeds.  But aren't they pretty! :-)
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