New Zealand - images of our people, cities and landscapes.

New Zealand is a special place and has 3 main islands that make up most of the county. It has large tracts of unpopulated land which gives the people space to move and breathe. This is a small collection of images from the many trips and voyages I have taken around my country. Enjoy.

Scroll down - Milford Sound - Milford Road - Fiordland Alpine - Fiordland Coast - Te Anau & Manapouri - Southland & Otago - West Coast - Stewart Island - Cities - North Island

Milford Sound

Milford Sound is the only sound (fjord) in Fiordland which you can drive to, this makes it a busy place. The visitors are greeted with spectacular sights with Mitre Peak central in the view and options to cruise on the 15km long sound. The sheer rock walls soar up to 1200m high straight out of the water. Milford’s rainfall averages around 7 metres per year.

Looking down the entrance into Milford Sound

Milford road

The Milford road is one of the world’s great drives. From Te Anau to Milford Sound you drive literally through the heart of Fiordland. 120km of amazing scenery and is a destination in itself which should be taken slowly and often.

All of these images have been taken not far from the roads edge.

Hollyford River

Falle Creek

Hollyford river detail

Chasm detail

Chasm detail 2

Chasm detail 3

Chasm detail 4

Storm waterfall

Culvert detail

Forest Eglinton Valley

On the road edge

Winter snow

Winter beauty

Ice climbing by the Milford Tunnel

Lake Te Anau at Te Anau Downs

Aftermath of a storm in the Eglinton Valley

Small orchid

Homer Tunnel - 1.2km long

Aerial view of the Homer Saddle and tunnel

Aerial view of the Milford road

Fiordland - Bush, Alpine & Aerials

There is a good network of tracks, trails and routes to explore, either by one day or multi day adventures. Once you are above the bush line, a new world welcomes you. Fiordland’s mountains, ridges and open tops seem to go on forever.

Green Lake

Resolution Island

Dusky Track

Dusky Track tramping

Tripod Hill - Dusky Track

Lake Roe - Dusky Track

Dusky Track #3

Mt Elrig

Kepler Track - south arm

Key Summit

McKinnon Pass 3- Milford Track

McKinnon Pass

McKinnon Pass 2

Milford track trampers

Mt Roe

Fiordland ridges 1

Fiordland mountains 2

Gertrude Saddle

Gertrude Valley 1

Titiroa 1

Titiroa 2

Titiroa stone family

Titaroa- rocks

Routeburn Track

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Fiordland Coast

The Fiordland Coast is a wild and remote place. One of my favorite places on Earth. It is only accessible by boat, helicopter or float plane and therefore you know you are in a true wilderness area. There are 14 fjords along the National Park coastline. On the maps they are called sounds but are actually ice carved fjords. As you travel north the fjords get steeper with the mountain tops falling straight into the sea. New Zealand’s first shipwreck, European house and boat were built in Dusky Sound.

' The Graveyard'

West Cape

Sealers Beach

Sealers cave

Hall Arm

Spit Island

Puysegur Point 1

Puysegur Point looking north

Puysegur Point 2

Puysegur Point lighthouse

Puysegur Point 3

Puysegur Point house remains

Martins Bay

Coal River

Doubtful Sound

Milford sound

Chalky Island

Kisbee

Breaksea Island

Crooked Arm

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South Port

Wet Jacket Arm

Rain fed waterfall

Martins Bay

Doubtful Sound

Big Bay

Spit Islands and Dusky Sound

Chalky Island and Preservation Inlet

Coal river

Stella wreck

Chalky Island

Breaksea Sound

Humpback Whale off Dagg Sound

Dusky Sound

Te Anau and Manapouri

My hometown of Te Anau is a small township located on the shore of NZ’s 2nd largest lake and the gateway to Fiordland. Lake Manapouri which I would rate an NZs nicest lake is very close and linked to Te Anau by the Waiau river. Both these Lakes dominate the area and are the boating access into the Fiordland wilderness.

Te Anau snow

Te Anau - south arm

Te Anau boat harbour

Lake Te Anau - south arm

Manapouri - Monument

Manapouri

Manapouri - Cathedral Peaks

Manapouri township

Manapouri - Hope Arm

Manapouri storm

Manapouri and Sparton

Southland and Otago

These are the two local provinces and cover the lower South Island. My most traveled areas for photography and touring.

South Coast beach house

South Coast trees

South Otago rolling hills

Catlins Sunrise

Caltins

Catlins waterfall

Falls Dam - Fishing huts #1

Falls Dam - Fishing huts #2

Te WaiWai bay

Catlins estuary

Cattle muster Te Anau

Percy Burn Viaduct

Queenstown - Movie prop

Skippers Canyon

Skippers Canyon #2

Kingston - rail yards

Farmshed Te Anau

Tuatapere - Fishing hut

Curio Bay sunrise

Small town pet

Hoopers Inlet

Nevis Valley

Clydevale

Bluecliffs Beach

Mavora Lakes

Stewart Island

Situated at the very south of NZ, it is our 3rd largest island. It is mostly wilderness within the Rakiura National Park. A small population is the Oban township. It has its own special character being isolated from the rest of the country and the locals prefer it that way.

Mutton birding huts

Horseshoe Bay

Golden Bay

Halfmoon Bay sunrise

Red Head Peak

Ernest Islands - West Ruggedy

Halfmoon Bay

West Coast 1

West Coast 2

West Coast - South Island

Running from Jacksons Bay in the South to Karamea in the north, the area is commonly just known as the ‘West Coast’. It has a deep history with mining and retains that rugged independent feeling.