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| Deleted User | Jan 30 2007, 07:51 AM Post #16 |
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I'm here at the right time of day but the screen is black. Maybe it's my computer. I loved March of the Penguins. |
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| Kahu | Jan 30 2007, 09:47 AM Post #17 |
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This was a web site posted, not a web cam, but there are webcam links on the site, so its not dependent on international time zones. The web page has a black background so maybe there was some problem in down loading it fully? I'll add another link to the same page but with the sound file on......... Little Blue Penguins Sound File If you can work your way through the pages, trying out the sound files, you'll find there is a very different penguin language between species. |
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| Kahu | Jan 31 2007, 04:25 PM Post #18 |
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The Fiordland Crested Penguin, Milford Sound This is a very rugged, isolated, lonely coast, on the extreme SW of the South Island..........probably similar to the BC Alaskan coastline. Posted Image Posted Image New Zealand Fur Seals in Milford Sound, Fiordland Posted Image Posted Image Fiordland is one of the wettest places around, annual rainfall is about 4m. Fine days are spectacular and a rarity! These waterfalls are some of the many cascading down the mountainsides. Posted Image |
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 05:28 PM Post #19 |
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:): These are beautiful pictures, Kahu...especially the last one. I'd love to visit your country& that part of it would be a delight, I'm sure. Do they offer tours to that area? I found a link to one, "The March of the Penquins" trailers...I watched it last year...it was very informative & enjoyable. I'd urge anyone to try & get ahold of it thru rental or library. http://movies.about.com/od/marchofthepengu...guins062005.htm |
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| Kahu | Feb 1 2007, 10:11 AM Post #20 |
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Yes they do. The road trip is a bit arduous, up over high alpine passes and through the Homer Tunnel, down a zig zag road to Milford Sound. Or taking a bus trip through the same route which is easier, or a three day voyage from Bluff around the coast and into the Fiords - spectacular, but much more expensive. Or the final option is to fly there - small fixed wing alpine planes with ski under carriage for landing and take off on the nevee about the glaciers; or helicopter flights. The last are the least preferred because of the noise pollution aspect of a National Park. Then you can walk it, over three days, through the Milford track, and visit third highest waterfall in the world the Sutherland Falls and Lake Quill, before going over the McKinnon Pass on the Alps, and from there descend down into Milford Sound. (Milford Sound is a fiord). This one thing I'm going to do before I shuffle off this mortal coil.....a friend's father did this trip at 75 yrs...so I've got a bit of time! He really was fit though. He used to run up the local firebreaks here along the ridges, and back down before lunch for training! |
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| Deleted User | Feb 1 2007, 04:45 PM Post #21 |
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:action: Good for you Kahu....who says you have to do it 3 days? Can't you just take it easy and enjoy yourself? Worse gets to worse, I guess you could arrange ahead of time to be picked up early if need be? |
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| Kahu | Feb 1 2007, 05:00 PM Post #22 |
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Its not quite as simple as that Mamamia. The Milford Track is part of a World Heritage National Park, there are strict limits on the numbers of people who are allowed to use the track in each season. Remember too many tourists means too many feet in a very delicate ecosystem, loving the place to death, so to speak! Then there is the climate, 4m+ of rain per year, avalanches, snowfalls, being clagged in by cloud! There is a very short trekking season to allow to make the best use of the limited best weather. You can arrange to take a guided tour, which means someone else carries your pack, makes dinner, gets you the hot water for the showers, and a nice warm bed under shelter.........to make your trip enjoyable. If you choose to be a free tramper, then you hump your own pack, make your own meals etc, you get to share accommodation but without the frills! |
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