Mazzamundo: February 2007

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Vertigo

Labels: and they mean it

Ferndale Mtn Biking

Labels: nasty technical downhill

Ferndale Mtn Biking

Labels: finally reaching the top of the track

Ferndale Track

Labels: about 2000 feet verticle, and NOT yet to the top. Over 2 hours cranking uphill

Cranking up the Ferndale Track

Labels: a German woman, taken by Maya

Ferndale Mtn Biking

Labels: Check the vert

Ferndale Mtn Biking

Queenstown Bay

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Aoraki ( Mt Cook)

Lake Tekapo

Ostrich

Queenstown Bay and The Remarkables

Queenstown bay

Kawarua Gorge

Lindis pass

Labels: absoultely nothing around for 100's of kilometers

Aoraki ( Mt Cook)

Labels: and Lake Tekapo

Lake Tekapo

Labels: Southern Lakes District. 3 hours drive from Christchurch

Monday, February 26, 2007

Port Hills

Crazy riding in Port Hills

Labels: listed in Top Ten rides in New Zealand. Check.

Friendly Kiwi

Labels: with a sheepish grin

Bowenvale Valley Track

Labels: sick single track. look closely

The Dahon Flo

Labels: what a bike...

Now the Mountain Biking

Labels: Sugarloaf Scenic Reserve in the Port Hills near Christchurch

Akaroa Harbor

Akaroa Monument

Labels: to demonstrate Brritish sovereignty to the people of the Banks Peninsula in 1840

Akaroa Lighthouse

Akaroa

Labels: first occupied by the French in 1840, on the Banks Peninsula

Akaroa

Labels: 15 km away, view from the hills

Port Hills

Labels: driving on the left, in Ford Focus..ha, in the Southern Hemisphere

Hagley Park - Christchuch

Labels: 2nd largest park inside a city, NYC's Central park is largest

Christchurch Cathedral

River Avon- Christchurch

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Bayly's Beach

Labels: wow

Bayly's Beach

Labels: 50 kilometers long on the Tasman Sea..the wildest beach I have ever been on

Hunky Dory

Labels: our backpacker lodge in Bayly's Beach

Fishhead on Bayly's Beach

Labels: on the Tasman Sea

Ka Iwi Lakes

Labels: Freshwater dunes lakes

Mauri tree

Labels: largest tree in all of NZ..over 2000 years old

Waterfall in the bush

Dunes..

Labels: on the Tasman Sea

New Zealand Playground

Labels: Giant sand dunes south of Cape Reinga

Cape Reinga

Cape Reinga Lighthouse

Labels: acrobatics

Cape Reinga Lighthouse

Cape Reinga

Labels: at the lighthouse

Cape Reinga

Labels: northernmost tip of the North Island

Spirit's Bay

Mangonoi

Labels: best fish and chips ever

Paihia

Labels: we had a great dinner on the Sugarboat

Sunflowers..

Labels: and sheep and nothing else