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RoadScenes: Thumbnail Pictures of South Island #2, New Zealand

Wanaka-Queenstown to Christchurch (February 20 - month day, 2008)

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Wanaka to Queenstown

(February 22 - March 1, 2008)

The pass over the crown range.
Chloe and Rob from Canada.

The luge track in Queenstown.
The luge.

Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu.

**Routeburn hiking / tramping / trekking Track**

(March 2 - 6, 2008)
Cindie putting on her gloves. It is downhill and around the corner from here.	Earnland falls.

The Harris Saddle emergency shelter on the Routeburn track, one hut is for guided hikers and the other is for independent hikers, what a strange system.

**Caples hiking/trekking/tramping Track**

(March 5 & 6, 2008)
Misty mountain tops.	Tim on the left, at Mckellar saddle.

Cindie on the track.

Queenstown to Invercargill

(March 9 - 18, 2008)
A couple of American cyclists we met on the road.	The beautiful scenery of New Zealand.
The road that has no end. View of Te Waewae Bay and the fiord lands in the background.	Can you say muscle car. Cindie pushing her bike through a stream, oh the water was cold but I had my sealskins on so I felt the cold but didn't get wet, yeah.

Invercargill to Curio Bay, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand

(March 19 - 22, 2008)

Cindie with Robert Esson, he is 77 and has been cycle touring for 17 years. whoa.
Cindie waiting for the sheep to go by.

She is roaring at Tim, he got a little too close

This little guy was lost but now he is found.

A couple of canadians we met on the road.

A heron wading in the shallows.

Curio Bay, Catlins, to Dunedin

(March 23 - 26, 2008)
Robbie and Cindie riding out of Curio bay.	Yellow eyed penguin.
The petrified forest at Curio Bay. View of farmland.	View from Florence Hill lookout. On the way out to nugget point we saw this 4 wheel in trouble, good thing he has that snorkle.

Sea lions on the beach on the way to nugget bay.

Tim taking a lunch break.

Dunedin to Middlemarch, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand

(March 25 - April 2, 2008)

This building is in the Bicycle New Zealand book, we had to stop for a photo op.
The hilly sheep country near Middlemarch.

Our camp on the side of the road, can you believe it.

Our campsite at Middlemarch.

Central Otago Rail Trail Bicycle Path from Middlemarch to Alexandria

(April 4 - 8, 2008)
The rail trail is gravel and you ride on the left.

Cromwell to Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

(April 9 - May 2, 2008)

Our campsite north of Cromwell.
Our campsite near the pass, it was starting to get cold and we woke to frost.

Dry Otago was a joy to ride through.
At wetlands near Twizle.

Fall at our campsite.

Honey bees have a mission and it is not to sting me!

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9-15-2007 to Present

INDEX #1 North and Central America 3-30-02 to 4-17-03	INDEX #2 South America The Andes 6-3-03 to 6-17-04	INDEX #3 SE Asia and China 11-22-04 to 9-15-06	INDEX #4 Australia The grand tour 9-15-06 to 9-15-07
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