Sunrise at Swamy Summit

Not a bad way to start the day

Te Anau

For our last little holiday before Uni started back up, Mark and I went camping on the west coast with a couple of friends. Te Anau is just spectacular in every way!

Here are a few shots of lakes that were fished in and trails that were hiked.

Read the sign :-)

The ground was so springy! Had a blast jumping around in it. Seriously felt like a trampoline. Bizarre.

Mark fishing in a huge lake at the crack of dawn.

Shots of Milford Sound.

Here's the first catch of the weekend. It was delicious!!

The before hike picture are always better than the after ones. Though we were already melting!

Summer Camping: Pounawea

I've been experiencing technical difficulties, so sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything.  Here are a few shots from our camping trip to the Catlins earlier this summer.  It was actually a birthday trip for Mark... so there was lots of fishing on his part... and lots of reading in the sun on my part.  It was fantastic!!

 

 

We managed to find a few local fishing spots that required some lengthy gravel road runs... but the views were awesome.

 

Mark did really well in this particular river with rainbow and brown trout.

 

Our system was... I sit in the sun contemplating the merits of doing nothing and LOVING it until I hear Mark "Whoo hoo"... then I go running with the camera.  Tada...

 

With the occasional tree climbing...

 

 

 

We took a break from all this hard work to go out to the Cathedral Caves.  You have to wait until low tide to get to the caves.  Here's the walk on the beach at low tide...

 

These pictures downloaded in the wrong order, but this is from the inside of the caves:

 

This is the caves from the outside:

 

And of course... night time fishing was spectacular!

 

Great weekend!!