
Waterfall and Beech Forest on the Rob Roy Glacier Walk New Zealand. B&W
The walk starts at the Raspberry Creek car park, 54 km west of Wanaka. After about 15 minutes it enters Mount Aspiring National Park. It is an easy 3-4 hours.
Photos of the South Island of New Zealand – the quest being a landscape re-imagined and then re-imaged
Waterfall and Beech Forest on the Rob Roy Glacier Walk New Zealand. B&W
The walk starts at the Raspberry Creek car park, 54 km west of Wanaka. After about 15 minutes it enters Mount Aspiring National Park. It is an easy 3-4 hours.
Note the tannin coloured water typical of the area. 7 metres of rain annually With over an average of appox. 200 rain-days/year.
Sunset side lighting on storm clouds in Long Sound in Preservation Inlet, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
Situated in the Murchison Mountains. Home of the takahē or notornis. One of New Zealand’s endangered species.
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This area of New Zealand’s remote and rugged South Westland is truly worthy of World Heritage status bestowed sometime ago by UNESCO. It extends south from the Cook River to Fiordland and encompasses the Franz and Fox Glaciers – 2.6 million-hectares in total.
One of the benefits of living in the Wanaka area is it is very close to this amazingly diverse landscape, and this selection is from a quick trip to the Jackson and Cascade rivers area in Nov. 2017