Goodbye Summer, Hello Summer

[Ships_Cat]

As we farewell our summer here and you in the northern hemisphere welcome yours, the following may help put you in a saily type of mood. These couple of photos were taken while sailing over the last 3 weeks in Guards Bay, outer Marlborough Sounds, northern coast of South Island, Cook Strait, NZ.

Autumn Evening -

Allen Strait in distance, entry to Pelorous Sound -

I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy your photos.

John
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[snowleopard]

Could easily be Scotland. Are you sure you're not taking this anonymity thing a bit far?

 

[BrianJ]

John,
Looks GREAT .. have you sailed Mlford ? My son has taken his Frigate in there and says its beautiful....
Was thinking of all the Kiwis on this BB ,today as I marched...
Regards .. BrianJ

 

[Clive_Rigden]

Got back from N.Z. at Easter. Spent a month in North Island and the northern half of South Island. Did a bit of sailing around Auckland and The Bay of Islands - wonderful! Fell in love with the north coast of South Island - Picton, Havelock, Golden Bay &c. and can't wait to do some sailing there. Intend to return next year to "do" the southern half of South Island which we just didn't have the time to visit.

An awesome country with the most delightful people - the ones we met anyhow!

Liked Fiji on the way home too.

Have a tolerable winter . . . /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[BrendanS]

I say old chap, what terribly bad form. You are supposed to post the pictures, along with the text 'guess where?', not just tell us where they are without any intellectual challenge!

PS welcome back!

 

[Ships_Cat]

Hi Brian

While a maybe for sometime in the future I have not sailed down to Milford and the other Fiords. They are around 500-600 miles from here with no refuges of any consequence on the way along a very exposed and changeable coast (with the Southern Alps being close by to the East all the way down). The area approaching the Fiords and off the Fiords is very exposed also to the southern ocean westerlies and deep depressions running under Tasmania and Stewart Island, so a very high frequency of gales and storms.

A number of friends have done so and as you say they all regard it as being very worthwhile and extremely scenic.

Your mention of the frigate reminds me that while I was doing some work in aviation sometime back the guys were talking about having just seen a video taken from one of the old (well not so old then) Oz F111's flying in the Fiords - apparantly truly frightening and motionsickness making.

John

 

[Sgeir]

Great photos once again.

Just one question though. Is there something about the southern hemisphere that gives you a level horizon? Mine always seem to slope.

 

[Ships_Cat]

Ah ha! Is very difficult to get a level horizon when taking photos from a yacht and I cannot regularly achieve it at the clicking stage. My secret lies in after the clicking bit using PhotoShop to rotate them the neccesary 1/2 degree or so (of course, other image editing applications are able to do the same).

Sorry for my confession to being a cheat /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.

John

 

[powerskipper]

me to /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif, or all my boats would be going up or down hill.