One more try....

Well, one more try to upload my photos! It seems to be working now, so I'll horse on!

This first one is the view of Aoraki/Mt. Cook, NZ's highest peak, and next to it, on the right, Mt Tasman, taken across Lake Matheson near Fox Glacier
I'm pretty sure this is the Mt Cook summit too, with Mt Tasman in the mist.

On the walk round the lake.

Moving on, the township of Ross was once a busy goldmining town. This diorama shows what it probably looked like in its heyday!

Nearby I found a beautiful tree with these gorgeous pink flowers on it! It looks like a clematis of some sort so maybe it was just growing through the tree and I didn't pick that up at the time. While I was editing the photos I tried a bit of the artistic for this one and have turned the background to black and white while keeping the flower pink.

This is Hokitika, the main greenstone carving centre, greenstone or pounami being used for traditional Maori adornments, and modern day jewellery. The clock is a war memorial and as ANZAC day had just passed - when I was in Queenstown - there were some wreaths laid on its steps....

The weather got worse on the way north....

...though eventually it did fair up a bit for Pancake Rocks.

No-one can explain how these rocks were eroded to look like this!

Looking closely at this one I can see faces in the seastacks! Same with the next one. Click them to enlarge them and see if you see them too!!

The sea booming into this cove made some noise but we only got a little spout of water. If the tide had been further in I expect the other conditions would have been good for a real show!

The Te Nikau Retreat. I could have made this house my home quite happily - the backpackers hostel at Punakaiki. It got its name from the Nikau palms that grow in this area.

The bushy bits at the bottom of the bulbous bit are the flowers.

There can't be many hostels where you find this sort of art work on the bathroom walls!

and for the last pic for now here's the hostel computer room where I sat and wrote my blog about the journey to Punakaiki from Franz Josef.

Not sure why I added this one but never mind!

Well I've got them all uploaded - not without some difficulties I may say, so I'll say good night again!

Talk again soon.