Susan's BIG Birthday (can you guess which one?) - New Zealand South Island - February 2008

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Don't feed the Keas, or Mitch either! (Keas are large mischievious parrots- you'll see one later)	The mountainside that the tunnel was built through	Notice the traffic light system to keep traffic flowing one way, then the other	Inside the tunnel, in which the road actually goes downhill
The other side of the tunnel- mail carriers climbed over this to deliver mail at one time! (pre-airplanes)	The road continues on to Milford....	A bit of Maori history and culture along the way	Tutoko over my right shoulder
Our ship for the Milford cruise - Milford Mariner	On our boat in Milford Sound on a beautiful day. Mitre Peak, ahead, comes right out of the water - 5076' high	We rounded a corner, and there were seals!	Lots of seals!
Looking back at the Sound from the Tasman Sea	Going back up the Sound and into the wind	The Sound is actually a Fjord since the mountains come straight down into the water	A bit of perspective at the vastness
Another surprise-a pod of dolphins!	They don't seem to mind the boat	Looking back toward the Divide	Approaching a falls
Legend has it that the mist keeps you young ...	Well, what can we say, it's gorgeous	And so is this...NZ is incredible!	Back on the road at an overlook parking lot, a Kea, the mischievious wild birds of NZ
We watched this Kea have a ball as he happily ripped the stuffing out of this bike seat.	"And why not?"	A little fuzzy, but funny picture of a Kea holding onto and nibbling on an antenna!	The next two days, we drove the Southern Scenic Route, which follows the southern coast of the South Island. Windy day!
Here, the wind roared unencumbered out of the South	One of the stops along the way	Monkey Island in the background; the tide was too high to walk out to it	Waipapa Point wooden lighthouse, under renovation
A close sea lion encounter on the beach at Waipapa Point	The remoteness of the Point	Heading toward the Catlins	Curio Bay at low tide, where you can see the fallen petrified forest in the rocks (note treetrunk in the foreground)
Petrified wood tree trunk close up	Curio Bay was sooo pretty....	...and with dramatic surf	In the Catlins, we stayed at a really cool place off of a gravel road in a beautiful valley near Owaka
The cabin we stayed in, regrettably only one night	The view	The view after leaving - our cabin is the 2nd from the left.	Valley residents
Cannibal Bay - huge whole kelp plants washed up on the beach	Nugget Point Lighthouse	At the Lighthouse, looking down at lots of seals sunning themselves	Here they are sunning
..and playing in the surf	Ah, happiness is a nice, warm rock

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