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Ode to Lyttelton
Published on 2010-04-27 04:35:00
Shackleton sailed out of Lyttelton harbour on the Nimrod expedition to the South Pole, and I sailed in on the number 27 bus from Christchurch, perhaps my mode was a touch less romantic and I doubt if Frank Wild and Ernest Joyce had two enthusiastically gossipping women wedged close behind them on deck. Despite being hemmed in by bulging woolworths bags, I was greatly enjoying listening to the Lyttelton ladies chatter, it has been years since I had been in New Zealand and I had missed the accent,
Skagway out of Season
Published on 2009-09-18 07:18:00
Bleary eyed we boarded the ferry in Haines and before we knew it we were hopping off again in Skagway, it is only 20 speedy miles by water, but a whole lot longer if you go by road. Now we are never in any real rush and the landscape along the roads is untouchable, but when finances get tight, sacrifices get made, sigh....... jeeez I have such a tough life, shall we sail by ferry through glaciers and majestic fjords, or shall we drive though the firey autumn mountains with moose and bear peeping
Eagles, Eagles Everywhere
Published on 2009-09-17 18:11:00
We travelled from Alaska to Alaska via Canada and drove down into Haines on high Eagle alert. We had been told amazing tales of how many of these magestic salmon gulping predators there were to be found on this stretch of river and although we were a few weeks too early for the yearly surge, we still hoped to spot a few. We had been into many lovely art galleries around Alaska and in each there were beautiful framed photographs showing hundreds of eagles standing shoulder to shoulder on the rive
