Peter, Nice pictures and a wonderful place. We want to go back too. Regards, Bob S.
On 6/10/07, Peter Lacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > since I am now more or less un-lagged (you know recovering from 12 hour > jetlag takes some time) I'd like to say few words about our visit to a > beautiful land of Aotearoa, also known a New Zealand. > > You can find something interesting or even breathtaking in about any > country in the world, but the diversity of NZ is phenomenal - wherever > you go there's certainly something to see (and to do). Even driving is > far from the usual boring relocation and quite a few roads bear the > attribute "Scenic route". And it's well deserved indeed. > > I've put some pictures on http://picasaweb.google.com/placus/NewZealand > so enjoy and if you have any question, please ask. Any comments are also > very welcome. These are all from istDs, slides are being developed. > > The weather was great and practically the only rainy day we experienced > on the way to Milford Sound. But I can't complain because according to > David Mann (our man from Christchurch ;-)), Milford is even more > spectacular in rain than on a clear day. Unfortunately we haven't met > David because we were in Christchurch during a work days. But we were > lucky to meet Alastair in Palmerston North so even if it wasn't the > first PDML meeting in New Zealand, it was most probably the first on the > North Island. ;-) Alastair kindly brought some very interesting Pentax > gear to our meeting so I had an opportunity to try for example SMC > Pentax A* 200 lens - the first star lens I've ever seen in person. Thank > you, Alastair! > > It was a quite short visit to this beautiful country but it was > certainly worth flying around the world to see it. We changed our > itinerary in the middle for a more relaxed route which means we left > some parts (most notably western shore glaciers, north of the South > Island and Kaikoura) for our next visit - yes, I hope to return to > Aotearoa sooner rather than later! > > Cheers, > > Peter > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
