t55

Bluff Hill Scenic Reserve (Walks near Invercagill)

Bluff Hill Scenic Reserve is with wonderful panoramic views and informative panels at the top of Bluff Hill. 

It also provides well formed walking tracks and some historical sites... 

We walked from the Stirling Point. We walked Foveaux Walkway, glory Track, and Tópuni Track

Stirling Point Sign Post - Stirling Point marks the southern end of State Highway 1. The point is memorable for the large signpost displaying distances to major cities in the world. A photograph of this signpost is a must for visitors.

Shore with wave-beaten rocks - There have been over thirty shipping disasters in and around Bluff Harbour. One of the best known was 'England's Golry', a 751 tons barque  which was  wrecked near this point in 1881.

Shaling Lookout - During the 1830's, a number of whaling stations were establised along the southern coast. Stirling Point is one of the whaling stations.

gunpit - a military site

remnants of military site

The east of the gunpit is Dog Island lighthouse. At 37 metres from ground to top, the tallest lighthouse in New Zealand.

Radar Station - Bluff Hill has always been a lookout and communication centre.

Bluff Hill viewing platform

viewed from the platform - Bluff Harbour on the right and Foveaux Strait on the left.

Comalco's Aluminium Smelter at the Tiwai Point

Greenpoint Domain  (Walks near Invercagill)

A well-graded walking track and boardwalk follows the shoreline to Greenpoint, providing panoramic views across Bluff Harbour

beautiful scene - a small island in the Bluff Harbour

ship graveyard

Waituna Lagoon  (Walks near Invercagill)

Waituna Lagoon and the surrounding wetlands area was one of the first in New Zealand to be officially recognised as a wetland of international importance. 

walking map

A 250-metre boardwalk winds through low-growing manuka and shrubs, emerging at a viewing shelter that overlooks Waituna Lagoon.

A circular 4 km track winds its way from the shelter around the bog, past tarns and through manuka scrub and shrubs.

extensive peat (semi-decayed material) bog (泥煤沼) around the track. Most of wetland in this area is the type of peat bog.

several beautiful tarns

a tarn accumulated semi-decayed material, or peat.

it's elegant and beautiful

beautiful reflection

viewing shelter

Waituna Lagoon viewed from the viewing shelter

Sandy Point Domain  (Walks near Invercagill)

There are several walking tracks in the Domain. We walked Rover Track/Petrie's Track and Kilmock Bush Track. Also visited Oreti Beach 

Rover Track/Petrie's Track is along the Oreti River...

the track is with dense forest and...

an extensive wet land on the river side...

Kilmock Bush Track features the gnarled and twisted branches of totara trees.

It looks like to enter a weird world in the movie

Branches grow out at right angles, form loops and generally exhibit shapes not normally encountered.

The convoluted(旋繞的) branches of totara take on the weirdest(怪誕的) of forms.

Oreti Beach was a key location for the film 'The World's Fastest Indian', which tells the story of Southland's motorcycling hero Burt Munro. At around 26 kilometres in length, the beach provided Munro with a testing and racing site for his modified Indian motorcycle.

The World's Fastest Indian (超速先生) is a 2005 New Zealand biographical film based on the Invercargill speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle. 

印第安（Indian）其實是主角柏特蒙羅（Burt Munro）所騎乘的機車製造廠牌。 蒙羅是紐西蘭的傳奇人物，保有1000cc以下機車的世界最速紀錄，本片敘述他從紐西蘭千里迢迢隻身

到美國參加競速大賽，首次創下紀錄的過程。最令人訝異的是當年他已六旬高齡，且患有狹心症，動作遲緩、耳朵不靈光。然而憑著對速度的執著，他克服一切難關參加比賽，且在接下來幾年一再締造無人可破的紀錄。

Oreti Beach因 超速先生 一片而馳名 這裏的海灘又平又寬又直又長(26km) 真是飆車的好地方 當然我們也不想缺席 飆車一陣子 感謝文義兄的精湛車技 只可惜沒有人拍照

Mores Scenic Reserve (Walks at Riverton)

We walked King's Lookout, Hilltop Lokout and Mores Coastal Loop Track

King's Lookout Viewing Platform

King's Lookout is located on Howells Hill overlooking the township of Riverton/Aparima

Stewart Island - view west from the Lookout

The Mores Coastal Loop Track is with dense forest

track near the coast

The Balance Rock in the front

Balance Rock - Weathering has caused this rock sit astop a pedestal 

Waipapa Point (Walks in catlins Coastal)

Windswept trees

The lighthouse at Waipapa Point was the last of the wooden lighthouses to be built in New Zealand and dates back 

to 1884.  The lighthouse was built after a tragic shipwreck just off the Waipapa Reef in 1881 with the sinking of SS Tararua, New Zealand's worse civilian shipwreck - Beyond this panel lies a treacherous reef, clearly visible at low tide. Had you stood here on 29 April 1991, you would have witnessed an historic disaster.

Slope Point (Walks in catlins Coastal)
Slope Point is the most southerly point of New Zealand’s South Island.

Windswept trees - It's usually with strong landward wind in this area.

Slope Point itself is not accessible by road but is a 20 minute walk along a track.

rolling farmland - the scene on the way to the Slope Point, the southern most point of New Zealand

the scene on the way to the Slope Point

SOUTHERN MOST POINT OF THE SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND 

The AA signpost at Slope Point shows the distance to the Equator and the South Pole. Always very strong wind in this area!

view from the Slope Point - the roaring wave shows the strong wind in this area....

Curio Bay Petrified Forest (walks in Catlins)

Even not at very low tide, we still could see the spectacular fossilized forest at Curio Bay coastline.

The fossils are abundant underfoot and in the cliffs.

The fossils date back about 160 million years, making it one of the unique places in the world where you can view a fossilized forest dating back to “Jurassic times”.

Fossilized trees related to the Kauri and Norfolk Pines of today

This unique Petrified Forest gives scientists an amazing insight into what forests and plant species were like 160 million years ago at a time when New Zealand was still part of the massive continent known as Gondwana.

The fossils have been exposed over the centuries as the strong wave action of the sea has eroded away the sand, clay and rocks around the silicone filled fossils. The exposed tree trunks, logs and root systems to be found on the coastal shelf make  a most spectacular sight and are well worth a visit.  A most magical experience.

impressive scene of the coastline

Keith Urban - Long hot summer

紐西蘭出生，最性感的男人，Keith Urban以一種非常隨性浪漫唱腔，配上他那倜儅瀟灑的外表，真還有很多粉絲。 紐西蘭出生，澳洲長大的Keith Urban有著十分搶眼的外表，除了過人的音樂才華廣受各大音樂媒體推薦，他出色的外表佔據了不少雜志封面，美國時人雜志“最性感的男人”的票選活動 Keith Urban也名列其中。很顯然的，Keith Urban並未迷失知利的漩渦裡，借著《BE HERE》他對自己進行更深一屋的反省和剖析，這張專輯記錄了他對生命的熱情，對愛情的體會， 還有獨自對抗內心沖突的痕跡。