Last camping dinner in NZ

For our last camping dinner in NZ, it was 40 fish fingers catched the same day in the supermarket !!!!! huuuuuum smells good !

Kaikoura

Kaikoura is the perfect peninsula, it's one of the only place of the world with such awesome mountains close to the sea ans such wildlife so close at hand : whales, dolphins, seals, penguins....
Unfortunately, it was to late in he season to see some whales, but we walked along beautiful beaches to meet the wildlife.

From the Kaikoura lookout, like you can see, it's a windy place :







































































I told you, windy !















Lazy seal sleeping, what else

Camping & walking in Arthur pass

Michel was cooking pasta for change. You can thing that it was cold, 'cause he has pull-over and pants and it was, but it was against sandflies as well.















the day after, we did some short track around Arthur pass















Devils waterfall (90m)


































Some creatures try to attack us !

Bumblebee !

Just for fun, I was testing my camera. and the result was a good.

Lake Tekapo and casttle hills

Lake Tekapo has almost the same colour of Pukaki's one, it's due to "rock flour" in the water. This sediment gives the water a milky quality an refracts the sunlight beaming down, hence a brillant colour.





























We had just few days left to drop off the car at Christchurch, and we decided from Mt Cook to Christchurch to do Lewis pass, Arthur pass and then Kaikoura.
We stopped at Casttle hills, to see these limestones just standing here. Some people were over there to climb rocks without rope.

Mt cook and walking track

I spent a freezing night in the tent, temperature was going down till 5°C, and my sleeping bag was to small for me, so my shoulders and my head were outside of it. Even if I slept with my beenie, it was really extreme condition.
The day after, we did the Hooker Valley track, to go at the Mt cook's bottom. It was 3hrs both ways but we did more to explore around. At the terminus of the track, Mt Cook, and Hooker glacier. Nature is so beautiful. I leave you enjoy...





























Mt Cook and Hooker glacier.















We started walking at 8am and we saw the sun coming in the valley.















Lake Pukaki at the end of the valley.















A hobbit walking.

Mt Cook national Park

We arrived end of the afternoon to Mt Cook area, after have seen beautiful landscape in Lindis pass, we stopped for a break at Lake Pukaki, on the way to Mt Cook, around 30km before.





























We put the tent in the only Campground, which is at the beginning of the track to go on the bottom of Mt Cook. At the end of the day, all the valley was in the dark, but one part was still lit by the sun.

Lindis pass

On the way to Mt Cook, we crossed Lindis pass, one of the most beautiful NZ's pass. No words too describe it, just watch this !

On the way to Dunedin, and around !

We were staying in Dunedin, just 1day, to visit the peninsula, and see some Albatros, it was one of the rarest place to see them. And then, we were at Moeraki boulders (north of Dunedin), which is a collection of large spherical boulders sit on the beach.





























































On the way back we stopped to see some seals colonies, a time to see them just enjoying the day and doing nothing else.

Nuggets POint bis

On the way to nuggets point, we stopped at Mc Craken's rest to watch the landscape, it was so natural















We slept at night near nuggets point after finding a good spot to put the tent. For dinner, pasta bolognese, making in the dark.




















But what chance was itn to see this early the morning, this spot was a piece of paradise.