Post by nikkortorokkor on Nov 11, 2007 18:38:39 GMT -5
Spring is turning to summer Downunder.
We took my sister-in-law on the traditional New Zealand camping trip over the weekend, to give her a taste of a traditional Southern Christmas activity before she returns to China in a couple of weeks.
She took charge of the digital and made this image. It makes me laugh because it looks so much like a cliché car ad from the 60s or 70s. Substitute our wee Mazda with a Ford Cortina, Falcon, or whatever and it'd be perfect. Of course these days one doesn't associate basic 4 door saloons with the great outdoors, and the camping motif is now used to sell SUVs and campervans.
Up the road a bit, we stopped at a very popular lookout point above one of the South Island's three major alpine (road) passes. Buses and campervans stop here every other minute, so imagine my surprise when a Chamois hops up the bluff right below us and nonchalantly (for a chamois) trots up the mountainside with only the odd glance in our direction. These tough little goats are prized by trophy hunters, so to see one so close is a rare treat.
We took my sister-in-law on the traditional New Zealand camping trip over the weekend, to give her a taste of a traditional Southern Christmas activity before she returns to China in a couple of weeks.
She took charge of the digital and made this image. It makes me laugh because it looks so much like a cliché car ad from the 60s or 70s. Substitute our wee Mazda with a Ford Cortina, Falcon, or whatever and it'd be perfect. Of course these days one doesn't associate basic 4 door saloons with the great outdoors, and the camping motif is now used to sell SUVs and campervans.
Up the road a bit, we stopped at a very popular lookout point above one of the South Island's three major alpine (road) passes. Buses and campervans stop here every other minute, so imagine my surprise when a Chamois hops up the bluff right below us and nonchalantly (for a chamois) trots up the mountainside with only the odd glance in our direction. These tough little goats are prized by trophy hunters, so to see one so close is a rare treat.
