The Mini-Moon (a Melissa Husby original word...)

Well, the pictures in the dark didn't turn out, but there were a few others that did...so they've been added at the bottom of the first ones...enjoy!


Fall colours at Lake Pearson in Arthur's Pass, on the way to the West Coast. So pretty!


A wild rose bush with lots of hips on it...they definitely add some colour to the roadsides!


This is the view looking southwest from our room, over the beach in front of the hotel. We decided we could get used to waking up to that in the morning!


I like waves...and these were especially cool because of the light in the clouds...on the beach in front of the hotel.


A zoom shot of the waves on the rocks just north of the hotel...made of the same stuff as the Pancake Rocks. Very very cool.


This is what the beach was composed of...of course down at the water it was small stuff and sand, but up just above the high tide mark, this is what it looked like. More skipping stones than you'd find at any of the lakes I've ever been to in a lifetime! I brought some home. So nice and round and flat. And no still water on which to try them out.


Al with a typical West Coast flax bush - pretty huge, eh? I felt like I was in Jurassic Park or something!


This is looking onto the ocean from the road to the Pancake Rocks, a cool little cove thingy.


Al on some pancake rocks (not "the" Pancake Rocks, these were just down the beach from our hotel), pointing at something neither of us can remember now.


We made a visit to Shantytown on our way back, which was enjoyable...this is the steam train we road back into the bush. On the way back out, Al and I got to ride in the engine with the driver, Al was like a kid in a candy store!


We made another detour on our way home, drove around Lake Brunner, as I have never been. Gorgeous country, although you have to watch out for insane people in 4WDs going a million miles an hour on blind corners on gravel roads with nowhere to go to get out of their way! Other than that it was lovely, heaps of rimu in there which I also hadn't seen before (rimu is a native tree, beautiful wood). So here's a pic of Lake Brunner.


This is part of the new road in Arthur's Pass, they were building it when I was here in 2000. The sheltery bit on the right (little one) is to send a waterfall over the road instead of on top of it, and I think the other larger one is to protect from rockfall. A great improvement on a few years ago...

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