James wrote
>Perhaps you can photograph a Tasmanian Devil..........or perhaps be
>one.........
>
Wrong South Island, dude. Get the atlas out!
AndrewF
(Geography, it's all in the geography)
>To see where I'm off to, haul out your Atlas, and find the Pacific Ocean.
>That
>shouldn't be too hard. Now turn the page 180º so that the North Pole is
>nearest your tummy. Go to the top right of the Pacific Ocean and
>somewhere to the left of the solid blob that is Australia, you should find a
>small string of attenuated green and white in the blue. That's NZ, start
>point.
>Go to the top right of top big island on that part of the map and you should
>see a humungous corrugated block of gneiss that is Fiordland, with the
>greywacke Southern Alps strung out towards you. Of course the printing is
>upside down which doesn't help. Near Fiordland, wedged between the Alps
>and the (Tasman) sea is a coastal plain with some forest and a lagoon called
>Okarito. That's the target; 220 miles from here by road. First item to pack
>after cameras is some DIMP or equivalent insect repellent.
>Brian
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