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andrewg  > Vacation > 1. Homer Hut
NZ Part 1. Traveling to, and arriving at, Homer Hut in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. It turned out that the Homer Hut was decommissioned. It was in the midst of being rebuilt, but it had a roof and walls (who could ask for anything more?).
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andrewg > "The Gorge" on the road to Milford Sound. This is a deep ravine cut by an active, heavily flowing stream.
andrewg > Rocks carved by the water of "The Gorge".
andrewg > A Kea, an indigenous parrot to New Zealand. They are very smart and inquisitive. They will use their powerful beaks to disassemble your boots, your car, and anything else they can find if you let them.
andrewg > A fern tree.
andrewg > Milford Sound is one of the most famous of the many fiords in the southwest of the South Island. Remote and beautiful, it's usually cloudy or rainy.
andrewg > Milford Sound. The Sound is frequently dense with sandflies. Like mosquitoes, the female sandfly needs your blood, so she stings you to get it, first injecting an anti-coagulant so your blood will flow without clotting. After a few hours, the anti-coagulant starts to itch like absolute crazy. It itches like the combined itchiness of every itch you've ever had combined, causing you to scrape and claw at the bite until you've stopped speaking because all you can do is scratch and your teeth are gritting and your fingernails have worn down to nothing. Then it starts to itch a lot more. Sandflies travel in swarms, like a thick cloud of venomous black pepper with an attitude. And they all want your blood. Luckily, the Sound was free of sandflies on this day, but I had my encounters with them later.
andrewg > Milford Sound.
andrewg > Lupins on the road to Milford Sound. Originally planted as part of a garden generations ago, a storm destroyed the garden and washed the seeds downstream, so there's now a V-shaped region in which you can find lupins growing wildly.
andrewg > Yellow flowers on the road to Milford Sound.
"The Gorge" on the road to Milford Sound. This is a deep ravine cut by an active, heavily flowing stream.
> "The Gorge" on the road to Milford Sound. This is a deep ravine cut by an active, heavily flowing stream.
"The Gorge" on the road to Milford Sound. This is a deep ravine cut by an active, heavily flowing stream.
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