A-Team is back

Watch out A-Team is back! (ladies following up a concert in Brisbane, Australia)

New Zealand in 3 weeks, vol 2

Franz Josef Glacier in rain



Franz Josef Glacier, only later we noticed these small red dots on the photo - small group of climbers


Dusky dolphins in Kaikoura on South Island of New Zealand

At the beginning I was rather excited and wanted to get all the fins on the picture, later on only dolphins who were jumping out from water or doing some other tricks.






Jump 1



Jump 2






Jump 3



Landing on the back



Dolphin called Martin



Surfing on the front wave, basically the dolphin is enjoying the free ride



Kristjan dolphin


Dancer. At the beginning it seemed rather hard to get the jumping dolphin on the photo, but later I noticed that if one starts to jump then it usually continues doing it, so it got a lot easier - just follow the direction of the jumper and soon it will be out of water again and again.



Kristjan - the guy who got sea sick from swimming :)



Landscape with dolphins and seabirds



Some lazy seals in Kaikoura, really didn't bother that we were around them



This seal at least opened its eyes



Getting a long pretty well



The rocks down in the water were full of resting seals



Picton - last stop for us on the South Island of New Zealand



Picton



Captain filling the logbook



House in the water






Kaptenile kohvi koorega :)



Two generations of camper vans



Wellington - the capital - first city for us in New Zealand



Rather interesting monster in Wellington



Stuck in snow - Tongariro National Park, place with active vulcanos



Last morning in Spaceship, making tea



Some more house to house reflection architecture in Auckland, I like it a bit more than the one I got in Brisbane (Australia)



Elvis was here, but he didn't like it :)

New Zealand in 3 weeks, vol 1

Somewhere in the middle of Aprill it was time to take a vacation from vacation and fly to New Zealand for few weeks.


Some hikers in Christchurch airport, even the climbing ropes were there :)



Autumn, Christchurch, New Zealand



Master of chess I



Master of chess II



One very colourful guy in the church, who had amazing knowledge of New Zealand, the church etc. But also amazing memory for names and people... he remembered by name some Estonian girl who had visited the church several years ago, also he was rather well informed about Eurovision :) etc.



In the church



Giving light to the ones in dark :)



Enlightened!



Christchurch on a Sunday afternoon



Christchurch on a Sunday afternoon



Christchurch on a Sunday afternoon



Christchurch on a Sunday afternoon



Christchurch on a Sunday afternoon



Christchurch on a Sunday afternoon locals having fun



Chest of all knowledge



Two generations seeking the answer to the ultimate question



Stolen art. It was not allowed to take this picture, but I got to know that only after it was already taken, sorry :)



Christchurch by night



Christchurch by night & my favorite torch



Tram line through the house



Lake Tekapo



A small church by Lake Tekapo



First night in wild






View to Mount Cook






Where the flat land and high land are meeting



Crossing



Mt Cook



Mt Cook



An experienced traveller choosing the next destination. Picture from the southern most point of New Zealand if not considering the small Stewart island that is even a bit more south



Wind and its power



Wind and its power



40-50 million sheep in New Zealand. The human population is ~4 million.






Te Anau, transportation in the mountains.



Milford Sound - one of the top tourist deitinations of NZ with annual rainfall of up to 7m. We were very lucky to enjoy the sunny sky in between the 1500m high mountains.



Rainforest around Milford Sound



Milford Sound, due to the height of mountains it is really hard to understand the actual distances. It seems that the mounains are just few hundred or so meters over the water, but actually the mountains that are further away are like 7km from me. It kind of cool to think about this when floating with a tiny kayak on the water.



Autumn in Queenstown, by the way on these mountains several scenes of Lord of The Rings were shot.



Queenstown



What berries are these? Furry and soft



This is one of the reasons I need to go back to New Zealand - Vertigo Downhill Bike Track. Why I just discovered this at the last evening in Queenstown?! Small single just next to trees with all its jumps, sharp turns...



Queenstown from top. Queenstown is the action sport center of New Zealand - downhill, gliding, whiteriver rafting, bunge jumping etc etc etc.



1 Mile tube that was bringing water for the Queenstown hydropower plant, built in 1924.



Stopped by the nature



So this is part of the team we were travelling. One guy was huge other was tiny.



... and then they went thought some srange mutations and then the tiny got big and big got tiny.... ahhh hard to get them :)