Marlborough Sounds and Abel Tasman National Park
Glorious Marlborough Sounds the entry into the South Island off the Cook Strait
Marlborough Sounds
Spent a fair bit of time in this magical place. Nat and I took an excursion to dive the Mikhail Lermentov, a Russian freighter the sunk off the coast. Sue and Joe and I took a boat trip to see Hector's dolphin, the world's smallest dolphin species, found only here in Marlborough. Very cool. Sorry there are no pictures
more sounds
New Zealand Robin
not very closely related to our North American robin.
NZ Robins are very unwary. This little guy ended up on Sue's foot
A Weta, the large and very strange NZ cricket. Also Weta Digital is Peter Jackson's production company
A kayak trip in Abel Tasman National Park.
A very pleasant and beautiful place of calm bays, blue water and little islands
More Abel Tasman
Abel Tasman NP
Nelson Lakes National Park
The three of us took a magical sunset horseback ride in the hills, where we got to herd sheep. If you've never had 200 pairs of eyes all turn and stare at you at once, try it, it will be memorable

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