Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Pics from the first few days in the south Island



So here are some pics from the first few days in the south Island. They are confusingly out of order but you'll get the point and its way harder to re-arrange em. We're havin a blast and will see you all soon- Love tash and sean


Getting on the inter Island Ferry

Tash looks nice, Why am I staring into your soul?

Seafood chowder so thick you can stand up a potato wedge fry in it

Who says wine and blogs don't mix? From the campsite in wine country

Double trouble

From our first stop in wine country

Our fist tasting guide- Rock ferry winery in Marlborough

This man knows how to taste a wine

The puppy they were hiding from me at our second stop in wine country

Profile pic of our tandem bike

Watchin my first overseas Browns Game - Naturally a 31-13 loss. Dinner cooking in the foreground

Hand feeding ducks. The mama duck blasted right by her babys to get the bread

Breakfast of champions- coffee and instant noodles

A baby seal we found in our travles

Waterfall seal pup pond

This blogs also about learnin

Lots of seals by the highway



Seal of approval


Tash next to a seal

Seal Showing off for the camera



In front of a sea gull nesting area

Giving you guys a hug

Look how brave I am

bein a seal is hard work

Wait nurses get hostel's here? - from historic hospital in Hanmer Springs

Wheres all the male nurses?

There they are

In a rainforest now

With our German friend Katja when we randomly ran into her next to a lake

Sick pick from the Lake

Same

Our American friends Romeo and Juliett

New born baby calf- we almost saw his first steps

The Franz Joseph Glacier is right around the corner, I swear

Bummer

Scary swing bridge at branz joseph

High water from the rain

Scary sign about haast pass

Tash getting rained on at lake Matheson

Another beautiful and windy scenic overlook

Thunder falls

Tightest point in the Haast pass

Random beauty on the way to Queenstown

"Wanaka fest" parade- with Zombies

And anti-aircraft guns?!?

And now were in the parade, -behind a lady pulling dogs on a bike

And a tiny horse

Baby ralph

Getting a kiss on the nose

Baby ralph- at our campsite in Wanaka

I NEED SOUP

Frisbee golf next to mountains- I swear



A pretty cup of coffee

A rack of NZ craft beers



hand feeding a duck



a touch of the bubbly

two Irishmen who recognized tash from "the old country"



bad ass Irishman tandem bike burnout

Ducks and the diwali

keep it comin buddy

this book exists. Why was I never told?




out back of one of the winerys



tash laughing with the wife from the husband and wife winery





husband and wife winery

Same

I got super artsy fartsy with the gopo- maybe it was the wine

the husband and wife, Howard and Julie and from Gibson Bridge

For Katie and Nick

Out the window of the 3rd winery

Lots of glasses





The shared platter at the 3rd winery

the view from the table

For Phil Chicchi's cats corner





behind the Hanz Herzog winery


Same



At Moa Brewery- that's the Moa bird