South Island here we come... again

This is a golden stream. The minerals travelling from the acid soils above react with the stream bed making it this golden colour.

With a volcano in the distance at the Tongariro National Park the views are spectacular. The smooth area in the fore ground is where a lava once creeped down hill from another volcano.

The cast of the Lord of the Rings walked up this path in their way to destroy the ring. Very spectacular, with pillars and arches eroded by wind and rain.

Hectors dolphin surfing! These tiny dolphins had no worries and played around our boat until we left them to it.

Strangly for Hectors dolphins the ones we were with were very aerobatic. A rare sight indeed.

This Fluttering Shearwater looks very similar to the Huttons shearwaters we'll be working with when we get to Kaikoura.

NZ has some very strange visitor centers!!!!