This photo has been my desktop background for a while. It was taken at the top of Broken River Ski Area, a club ski field in Canterbury, New Zealand. Skiing club fields in New Zealand is a completely unique experience to anywhere in the world. They typically don’t have any lifts – only rope tows, and on the busiest of days host about 50 skiers and snowboarders. Look forward to a post describing them in more detail in the future.
The final cove before we reached our campsite at Totaranui along the Abel Tasman Coast Track, Goat Bay was a welcome sight for our second and most challenging day along the track. Plagued by rain, wind, and numerous tidal crossings, clear skies finally prevailed for the last few miles of the day’s walk.
I was initially disappointed that the weather was so foggy and rainy when I got to Milford Sound, despite the mostly clear weather on the way. Eventually, however, I began to appreciate how the rain causes hundreds of waterfalls on the sheer cliffs of the fjord, and the flumes of water cascading thousands of feet from the peaks give the place a magnificently surreal beauty.
Today’s photo is from the top of Mt. Cheeseman looking toward the beautiful Southern Alps of New Zealand. The Southern Alps, originally uploaded by justinb84.
