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View on the 1st morning - unbeatable! |
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Slightly in the wrong order - left
photo was the first of the day whilst the right hand one was
taken close to where the panorama above was. |
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More views of the lake - with the
occasional tourist to spoil those views. |
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Mid-afternoon. Clouds started
spilling over the bluff (which was 1200m high, 600m higher than
the lake). Right hand photo was the last view of the lake for
the day before the rain set in. And before 3 hours walking down
to the campsite by the lake in the pouring rain. Got there at
7pm, 10 hours after setting off. This was where I made camping
easier by ripping a strap on the tent - and decided to go to
bed on a cereal bar - the broken strap was the last straw that
day!
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A couple of night time shots - actually
taken at the motor camp- so before the photos above were taken.
Left photo shows Orion (the 3 stars in a line are his belt) and
above and right of that is Sirius. To the right of the palm tree
is the eye of Taurus the bull and below the palm tree is the
Pleiades, otherwise known as the 7 sisters. The right photo is
taken looking the other way and is the only one to include my
tent! Above, the Milky Way is rising. To the right of that are
both the large and small Magellanic clouds - they appear as faint
blurs. The small one is between my tent and car, just above the
tree line, whilst the large one is up and left of it. Note that
the motor camp was flood-lit - this made me confused when I woke
up after drinking 2/3 of a bottle of wine in my tent to find
it was light - and my watch said 130am!
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More photos from the next night (back
in order now). First one is again of Orion - the middle of the
3 vertical stars above Orion's belt is actually the Orion nebula
- I'm quite impressed that it showed up red even if no-one else
is! Right photo is again of the Milky Way rising - the diamond
of the Southern Cross is visible (left star is the red one) whilst
the Large Magellanic cloud is now middle top of the photo.
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Left photo is a higher-resolution
version of the right hand one above. Right hand one is of the
dawn the next morning - this was the best place I camped at -
and only me camping - everybody else was being wimpy and staying
in the huts!
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4 more photos of the sun-rise over
Lake Waikaremoanaa (pronounced why-carry-mo-arner!) |
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Two views of
the lake on my final day there - actually both the same, left
hand one is the low-res version and the right hand one is the
hi-res one.
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Two more views of the Lake. |
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The best two of about 30 photos I took
of a family of kingfishers one morning |
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And to finish an arty one of a waterfall |
