Perks of Being Devon: Photos from the South Island

I do apologize for the lack of posts recently, I am afraid I have been quite tired/busy these past couple days to update everyone on the great Kiwi adventure. So, as I sit in our apartment living room watching a show about people driving on dangerous roads around the world (aptly titled “Dangerous Roads”), I am going to put together a blog post made up mainly of pictures from the rest of our time on the South Island. Emily is editing her wonderful pictures and panoramas (because really, what other way is there to capture a New Zealand landscape?), so I will take advantage of her storytelling skills in this post.

I have started work here in New Zealand, but I want to wait until I’ve finished a full week in the office so that I have something to write about workwise. You’ll just have to go without my witty commentary and musing about life for now (I was so much keener on being witty – or me thinking I was being witty – last summer, wasn’t I?) and enjoy the vistas of the Antipodes. Click on any of the photographs if you want to see them in their original-size glory.


This is a panorama of Milford Sound. I know you've already seen pictures of it, but I just wanted to show you this one as well.

And you've also seen this view of the Southern Alps, but again... a panorama this time.

This is up the coastline of Abel Tasman National Park from a boat.

Same as above.

After we landed on the beach ready to start our 12.0km hike along the coast.

View from a highpoint of our tramp.

Adele Island. Bird sanctuary. First European to reach New Zealand got moored out there, skirmished with the Maori, then peaced out. Europeans didn't return for about two hundred years.