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New Zealand Road Trip 2019 - Akaroa to Mount Cook

New Zealand Road Trip 2019 - Akaroa to Mount Cook

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New Zealand-s South Island is pure -Eye Candy- for lovers of natural beauty, with it stunning coastline, lofty mountains and glacial lakes. This tour kicks off on the Banks Peninsula, one of the most scenic places in the whole of the country, yet often missed by tourists. Akaroa was the only French settlement in New Zealand, the influence of those early settlers gives the town its unique appearance, pretty bright coloured houses, cafes and restaurants on the waterfront serving mouth-watering delicacies with a distinct French flavour. The Peninsula was named after Joseph Banks a botanist who arrived on board the Endeavour with the legendary explorer -Captain James Cook-, the area was originally an island formed by two volcanic cones. The two main centres of population grew around the deep water harbours of Lyttelton and Akaroa. We leave the Peninsula via the 2 kilometre Lyttelton road tunnel to our next stop at the Ferrymead Heritage Museum, home to a wonderful transport collection. After looking around the recreated early settler-s village, we visit the extensive railway, tram, road vehicle and aircraft exhibitions before moving on to Christchurch to ride the trams and see how the town is recovering from the devastating 2011 earthquake. The Southern Alps are beckoning in the distance as we head towards Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki and Mount Cook. I could try to describe the beauty, but I-d never do justice to the panoramic vista that greets visitors as Lake Tekapo comes into view. Map at
Date: 2022-11-28

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Tim,
Thank you for yet another immersive experience from the other side of the world! Your dedication in capturing your personal experience, melding video, sound and still photography, then enabling those who have not or cannot undertake such journeys, to share or glimpse the fruits of your efforts is truly altruistic.
The package is professional standard work: even if your editorship has taken occasional licence in the running order, across sources of multiple shots and sequences, with a pedantic or literal local analysis of their chronological capture. It was a treat, as are so many of your offerings, to see and in some way share in your journeys. Thank you, again. Peter

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Hello Tim, as you said, the landscape on the South Island was shaped by glaciers during the end of the last ice age. The lakes and rivers remaining after the retreat of the ice mass are also not missing and the turquoise-blue color of the Tekapo and Pukaki lakes caused by fine rock abrasion are an indication of this. - Cheers, Heinz
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Mostly enjoyed the video but there were a goodly number of shots taken out of sequence which to an over seas viewer wouldn't have mattered but are glaringly obvious to a local.
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