Eak & Shahn's Globetrotting Shenanigans: August 2013

NZ trip to see the family & snow

August 23rd to 27th 2013

So we needed a trip to NZ see the family, which is difficult to do as the live at opposite ends of the island. It was around the time of Marg and Pete's birthdays, Shahn's brother, Josh 's Birthday and so her parents also made the trip down to the Wanaka house. We also went down to the farm but we never took any photos, as always too busy doing things and having a look around.

Flying in to Queenstown

Snow-park from the air.

Flying below the hills as we land, pretty cool!

Chris driving

Hitting the Slopes, Michael, Shahn and Crispy.

Doing it with the Go Pro, looking professional if anything!

Lake Wanaka from Treble Cone, best view around...

Shahn

Eak & Shahn

Some boarding, its been a while since my last play in the snow I was very rusty. Some of these are from Josh's GoPro (thanks!!)

Kea (Nestor notabilis)

Station on Lake Whakatipu

Some night shots Albert town (Wanaka)

Last night out in Wanaka at the The Cow, from left - Robbie (Shahn's Mum), Josh (Shahn's Brother), Shahn and Michael, Kerry (Josh's girlfriend Emma's Dad), Darryl (Shahn's Dad), Sara (Emma's Mum) and Emma.

On the 10th of August we started our trip to hike within Girraween National Park.

The camp grounds were amazing, hot showers, fire places so really not roughing it.

So we first headed up the first pyramid and had a look at all the views amazing and a nice easy track, then at night we decided to try and get some of the perseid meteor shower but we missed them all. We had a friendly possum in the camp who just wandered up and looked around before continuing. Classic Aussie possum, whereas a NZ possum would attack your face if you get too close.

We spent most of the night trying out different exposures with our camera, took ages to get the right technique but were pretty stoked with what we achieved. Thoughts??

Looking side on through our Galaxy (crazy amount of stars), really crazy makes the planet feel small. This is the Milky Way.

The only part of the meteor shower we got in the very bottom right hand side. The tiny line.

The Pyramid

The first Pyramid - we climbed to the top of this, it was steep!

Climbing on top of the Mt Norman

From the top of Mt Norman looking east

Second Pyramid

On the Pyramid.

The balancing rock, really impressive as the area its balancing on is really small and you can put your hand underneath the rock. Crazy!

Bit of Rock Climbing, was a bit of a mission getting down.......

A long way down..... "Shahn be careful", "I will"... Seconds later skidded a little bit, Michael just shakes his head at me. Uhhhhggg okay sorry I'm a bit of a clutz, but I try!