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Old 02-11-2010, 05:30 PM
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Southern trip - Invercargill and Dunedin NZ 2010

Recently returned home to Invercargill for a catch up with family and friends, here are some quick pics of my home part of the world.



Called into the Catlins on the way home, via Nugget Point.
This pic is Otago looking into my home province of Southland.



An iconic image from my childhood, the nugget point light house.



Light house again



My wee fella Torin contemplating his escape



Emily and Torin harrassing the Tuatara "Henry"
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Old 02-11-2010, 05:36 PM
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Henry in the scale so to speak



My castle is still standing in Queens Park.



Queens Park in the Centre of Invercargill



Kingston, looking up lake Wakatipu and toward Queenstown, with the Devils Staircase and the Nevis's to the right.



Arrowtown, the historic mining town and a second home for me, as we had a crib there for so many moons.
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Relics of the old Chinese golds miners have been restored for visitors, funny thing is we used to play "war" and hide and go seek through all these buildings and pay them no mind when i was a kid.



She must of been a hard life for the Chinese settlers, being in a minority and being so far away from home.



Some are cut into the hill side as stores.



The Arrow river, scene of the gold rush and a place that I grew up swimming in and playing around (not this bit, a tad shallow) and where my mothers side of the family (Mcleods) made their / his money and was able to send home to Tongue and bring out the remainders of the family.



Over to Queenstown for a visit, and up the hill via cable car for some luging, which is reached by chair lift and is awesome fun.

The green shed on the left is a bungy jump off the side of the mountain.

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Old 02-11-2010, 05:48 PM
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Queenstown from Mitre Peak.



Even better, no age limit for the luge...



Found a cracking photo of the old man from his pipeband days...



And finally, a copy of this fellas work, it was gifted to a rellie in 1880, and I am struggling to date its orginal print date (nothing in cover or elsewhere), sadly, my grandmother in her dottering old days, managed to burn her house down, and the bottom part is water damage...

thats all folks.
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Old 02-11-2010, 10:52 PM
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Great pics!!
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Old 02-11-2010, 11:06 PM
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I forget that it's summer down there!

And hey, that piper looks really sharp in his Gordon tartan! He has great taste.
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Old 02-11-2010, 11:26 PM
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Nice photos. Looks like a nice visit home.
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Fabulous pics, Phil, many thanks indeed for showing us what the other side of the world looks like.
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Great pics, Thanks. I can se it is just a tad warmer than here in Norway (-15C)
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Super pictures!Thank you so much for sharing them.
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