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La région des grands glaciers
... quelques chants de kiwis mais au travers de la végétation dense nous n’avons pas eu l’occasion de voir sa frimousse. Nous sommes donc retournés à la voiture un peu bredouille. Mais sur la route menant au camping, virginie à aperçu le long de la route l’animal tant recherché. C’est donc une Virginie heureuse et toute existé que j’ai reconduit jusqu’au dodo.
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Franz josef, a helicopter and a glacier
... waterproofs and boots and set off to the heliport for (the bit I was looking forward to most) the helicopter journey to the top of the glacier itself. In typical New Zealand style the heliport itself had a small fence around it, a sign and a couple of blokes in red jackets - just imagine what that would be like in England and the amount of security guards, dogs, cameras etc that would be set up. I'm not quite sure what I expected but ...
From East to West
... Coast of New Zealand. The West Coast is a very wet environment due to the high rainfall (up to 7 metres) caused by Westerlies forced to rise over the Southern Alps (for all my Geography students - a perfect example of orographic rainfall). Because of this process, the Canterbury Plains on the East Coast regularly experience droughts (because of the rain shadow effect). Who would have thought that droughts occur in New Zealand. Of course it is all relative. Enough of ...
Hokitika & Franz Josef
... over looking Lake Mahinapua for the night. This morning we headed into Hokitika to get some food for the next few days, fill up with petrol and visit the i-site. We then drove an hour and a half further south to Franz Josef, another beautiful drive. We spent around 3 hours walking up to the Franz Josef glacier (as close as we could get) and doing a few other walking ...
David Copperfield
... thought was a dinosaur. I think the education system in Enfield has to be revisited. Done a stupid quiz that night. Got free beer but at couldn't even gloss the fact that we were ****. However I did get the David Copperfield answer before two teams. Two separate notes. Girls spend way too long tagging people. Also I hate the ...
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