More pictures from the South Island

Hello everyone...I finally found a internet site..that is speedy fast...It only took me an hour to do this post, which is a record compared to the last....which is also why I was able to post so many pictures! I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays. Know that I am thinking of you all and wish you the very merriest of Christmas! There are still some more picutures of the South Island to post, but I have not burned them to a disc yet. So the pictures of the rainbows and killer whales will be on the next post! We are now back on the North Island and enjoying time at my property in Rotorua. It has been nice to have a shower everyday, and to be able to just relax and not be on the go! I am hitting up some white water rafting tomorrow and river sledging. We will be going over a 7 meter waterfall on the river which is the most commercially rafted waterfall in the world I can't wait! It will be unlike any Christmas eve I have ever had! Love to everyone and I can't wait to hear what Santa brought! Leave me a comment if you get the chance!

Sky over the mountains on the Road to the Milford sound! The clouds do strange things here...unlike anything I have ever seen before!

Wonderful view of the mountain peaks in Fiordland National Park. This is the only spot you can see the peaks like this.....once inside the valleys...the Fiords are so steep..that you can only see the white caps on the top!

The beautiful Milford Road!

Spot where we camped before the rains came, called Cascade Creek on the Road to Milford. Fiordland National Park! There was fields of those flowers and they smelled so good!

Finally the waterfall Shots!

The much awaited waterfall pictures! Like I said before the pictures will not do it justice....but at least you can see the magnitude of these things! They were everywhere...barely visable through the fog and rain in this shot!

View going into the tunnel! Waterfalls falling everywhere!

This is the view we got when we came out of the the tunnel in the mountain. Like I said in my previous post, I have never seen this many waterfalls in my life! The drive in was 20 km. It was like this the entire way. This spot the Fiords were really dramatic, and the picture doesn't do it justice-imagine turning 360 degrees in all directions and seeing this on all sides!

Huge gushing waterfall off the side of the Milford Road. The next day it was sunny and this thing was not gushing like this!
Jayme and I on the Red Boat Tour of the Milford Sound. In the background is Mitre Peak. We were on the top deck of the boat and the wind was so strong that it picked up my flip flops and sent them over the edge. Made me laugh ...and we even managed to salvage one!

Waterfall inside the Milford Sound-Fiordland National Park.

Me on the Boat ride in front of the main waterfall. This waterfall is always in the Sound! Right after Jayme took this picture, I got soaked trying to take pictures of the waterfall itself! The captain brought the boat right up under it!

Mitre Peak on the Milford sound, glad when we finally got a nice day!

Our dollar store X-mas tree in the campervan! It really helped make things feel like Chritmas and was well worth the money! It also served as a smile grabber! I can't tell you how many people walked by and smiled seeing our little tree! Glad to know that I could make happy!

Sunset on the Otago Peninsula.

I put this picture here for Joy and Mike...This was in a mall in Dunedin...I couldn't believe it! They only carried four kinds of coffee and all just regular flavors.

Yellow-eyed Penguin, as seen from Sandfly Bay on the Otago Peninsula. These Penguins are the world's rarest penguins and are a threatened species numbering fewer than 3,000 breeding birds. To get to the bay you had to hike down huge dunes and this spot is one of the last free spots in New Zealand to be able to catch a glimpse of them. We lucked out to have one walking across the dunes at the time we hiked there!

Waves crashing at Sandfly Bay on the Otago Peninsula. The water was perfect!

Baldwin St. This street is in the Guiness Book of World Records and is the World's Steepest Street. We rode the campervan up it and I almost thought at that last hump we weren't going to make it...so I gunned it....and thank God we did! Had to laugh as everything in the campervan flew backward! We even got a certifcate of completion! The houses off the sides all had to be built on angles.
Another view of the street from the top looking down....It is so steep over the hump there, that you can't even see some of the road!
Me on top of the Moeraki Boulders near the town of Dunedin, on the East Coast side ! These boulders are world famous and took 4 millions years to create, and are thought to be 65 million years old!
Another one of the boulders with the inside carved out. The water around the boulders seems to be a permanent thing. The outside of the boulder is covered with mollusks. Most of them still living.

This is another view of the Moeraki Boulders. This is one that had broken apart!