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Glenorchy, New Zealand

New Zealand is stunning!

I had 10 days driving the backbone of the South Island, my favourite part of NZ. The Southern Alps mountain range runs down thru the middle of the long island, and has many many wonderful features. I love clouds, mountains and weather, so traveling in the autumn period was always going to be ?interesting?.
This photo is an area I had not previously visited, Glenorchy just 45 mins drive north up the shores of Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown. It is also the area where Peter Jackson chose to film some of the scenes in the Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) trilogy.
As I mentioned I had a mixture of weather, and with the advent of digital photography and endless photo memory, I was able to shoot off hundreds of photos. Now I have the huge task of sifting thru them and resizing to load onto VT.
I will never tire of this area, and although I had the opportunity to return to Christchurch via the coastal road, I couldn?t resist driving back, again, through the mountains. Sadly on both journeys, Mt Cook was covered in bad weather so I didn?t venture closer in to see it.
I did get some nice distance photos though.

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If you enjoy the throbbing sound of the Merlin, and the beauty of the Spitfire's design, you need to go to the Warbirds Over Wanaka show. See it here on my Spitfires travelogue and also here.

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Tandem skydive.

Freefalling......

My mother was a skydive instructor and I did many jumps in my earlier years. But that was a long time ago, so doing this tandem after 20 years was quite the experience!!
Check out my Perris, California page and view the travelogues to see more of the skydive.

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ONE TREE HILL

We turn away to face the cold, enduring chillAs the day begs the night for mercy
Your sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scarsCarved into stone on the face of earthThe moon is up and over One Tree HillWe see the sun go down in your eyesYou ran like river to the seaLike a river to the seaAnd in our world a heart of darkness, a fire zoneWhere poets speak their hearts, then bleed for itJara sang, his song a weapon, in the hands of loveYou know his blood still cries from the ground
It runs like a river to the seaLike a river to the seaI don?t believe in painted roses or bleeding heartsWhile bullets rape the night of the mercifulI?ll see you again when the stars fall from the skyAnd the moon has turned red over One Tree HillWe run like a river to the seaLike a river to the sea

Written by U2 to the memory of kiwi Greg Carroll killed on Bono's Motorcycle. One Tree Hill, in Auckland New Zealand, was Greg's favourite spot.

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Tintin and Snowy.

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I am a big Tintin fan and love his life of travel,adventure and journalism. Long live Tintin!!
I don't experience quite the adventures of Tintin, but you can see some of mine on these pages:
NewZealand>Skippers page - Scariest Trip travelogue.
New Zealand>Napier - Weekend Adventure Travelogue.
New Zealand>Lake Ohau - flight over this barren area.
California>Perris Valley Skydive!- Get your knees in the breeze!

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Wanaka

New Zealand

I have an extensive New Zealand page however I am slowly building more and more pages about different towns and areas of the country.
I guess I specialise in pages New Zealand, and hope to keep building.

If you have an interest, visit this page to see Hobbiton from the Lord of the Rings movie, in Middle Earth:
New Zealand>Hinuera - And where I live!!

My favourite pages are:
New Zealand>Doubtful Sound.
New Zealand>Lake Ohau.
New Zealand>Waiheke Island.
New Zealand>Glenorchy
New Zealand>Arrowtown
New Zealand>Waihou River

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Moustiers Door

FRANCE

My favourite France pages are:
Lurs - (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur)
Moustiers-Sainte-Marie-(Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur)
Forcalquier - (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur)
Chambord - (Centre)

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Barney the VT sheep in his cool VT cap !

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I'd like to recommend some of my good VT friends' pages:

SirRichard - He is the master of VT with his pages and paintings.
worldtrekker-Ernst is so very interesting and his photography is superb.
Ekahau - Paul writes about my favourite place Antarctica and also treats us to the special destination of Tristan da Cunha. Be sure to take some time to have a look. Also check out his visit to the Embera Indians in Tintin style on his Panama page.
MacKiwi - HongKong and Bangkok and China!! He is the best in Asia!!
keeweechic - She has such an immense amount of information to give!
ATLC - Anke-Thea has such full & interesting pages on countries like France and Netherlands, as well she takes us to remote locations as French Guiana and Suriname. Thanx my friend, and you understand New Zealand so well!!
lihue - Uli's pages on Antarctica and New Zealand are superb.
richiecdisc - He is a great photojournalist!! And a long time friend here.
Geoff_Wright - Geoff is the Lord of the SthWest of England, and VT's gentleman.
daarth - David, long time member of VT, our sailing adventurer.
Pawtuxet - She is teaching me about Rhode Island and Providence.
BenFromParis - Ben is the best Parisian host. thanx Ben!
RamSter - A young very enthusiastic traveller, on whose pages you can read about Australia and Croatia, both of which he knows very well. Go look!
Kiwigal_1 - Kiwigal has great knowledge on her Japan pages from living there and also has a lot to share on Mongolia.
AliJoe - Kamal is one of my oldest friends on VT and his pages on countries like Afghanistan are well worth reading.
giampiero6 - Our trusty leader, hahaha. But he knows so much about Italy and I love his Joshua Tree page, I want to go there!!

AntarcticFox - Fox gives the best personal pages on life on the Antarctic.
frankcanfly's Antarctic page - this is the most uptodate and "real" page on the ice continent on VT. Amazing!
Waxbag - has some very interesting family travel pages, I admire him greatly!
munki - his travel photos are superb. Simply outstanding. Go take a look!!
1+1 - his outback Australian exploits are phenominal!

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My favourite book.

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This is my favourite book. Written by the author of the popular "Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" Richard Bach, this story is slightly different. Still aviation based but with a different slant. The main character, Donald Shimoda, is my real mentor and if only I could fly like he does.
I'd have clean leading edges, with not a bug in sight.........












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