Saturday, May 27, 2006

New Zealand Pics

Will be uploaded real soon!
















Routeburn Track















Able Tasman Track, a walk on the beach.




















Sandfly Point at the end of the Milford Track, "Finally, a sunny day".

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Exit Oz















My flight back to L.A. after almost a year in Melbourne.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Easter in the Snowy Mountains












The travel brochure always show Australia as sunny beach or hot desert outback. They never ever mention snow, which was farthest from my mind when I went on a backpacking trip in the Snowy Mountains (aka of `The Man From` fame) 6 hours northeast of Melbourne.















Sunny day quickly turned forboding as soon as we started off. Well that's Melbourne weather for ya.















We had rain worthy of New Zealand. It never let up for 16 hours. I was dreading not bringing a book. In the morning, it had turned to snow.















The above was taken at Mount Kosciuszko, the highest point in Oz at 2262 metres.















Wild animals of the kind you don't expect here, horses. They tend to go to the toilet all over the place so you have to be careful where you set you tent.