Sheep that are on a pasture, in front Mount Dobson, on the Lake Tekapo peninsula.
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This photo story is a trip through the South Island of New Zealand in an RV. The over a week long drive started at Christchurch, then to Lake Tekapo, Queenstown at lake Wakatipu, and finished the drive along the west coast of the island looping back to Christchurch. The scenery was unforgettable, ragged mountains smoothed out into rolling hills covered in sheep, surrounded by flower fields, wide lakes, rivers, or some spectacle. We viewed glaciers from rainforests, and walked on beaches coated in clouds. In Queenstown we were grateful to experience a helicopter ride over the slightly inaccessible coastal mountain range of Milford Sound, where films such as Mission Impossible and Lord of the Rings were filmed, and the mountain tops are inseparable from the clouds. Located 5000 km away from the south pole, in the height of summer, this is New Zealand.
The TSS Earnslaw, the only remaining commercial passenger-carrying coal-fired steamship in the southern hemisphere, riding along Lake Wakatipu.
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Looking into the branches of a giant Sequoia tree.
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One of many Lupin flower fields.
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Walkway along Lake Tekapo.
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Sheep on a pasture near Mount Sunday.
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Lake Wakatipu from the Queenstown waterfront.
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Franz Joseph Glacier shot from the rainforest below.
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A Helicopter being cleaned at Milford Sound Flights.
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A view through a helicopter window flying over Lake Wakatipu.
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Views from the helicopter.
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