Hello everybody, since I am now more or less un-lagged (you know recovering from 12 hour jetlag takes some time) I'd like to say few words about our visit to a beautiful land of Aotearoa, also known a New Zealand.
You can find something interesting or even breathtaking in about any country in the world, but the diversity of NZ is phenomenal - wherever you go there's certainly something to see (and to do). Even driving is far from the usual boring relocation and quite a few roads bear the attribute "Scenic route". And it's well deserved indeed. I've put some pictures on http://picasaweb.google.com/placus/NewZealand so enjoy and if you have any question, please ask. Any comments are also very welcome. These are all from istDs, slides are being developed. The weather was great and practically the only rainy day we experienced on the way to Milford Sound. But I can't complain because according to David Mann (our man from Christchurch ;-)), Milford is even more spectacular in rain than on a clear day. Unfortunately we haven't met David because we were in Christchurch during a work days. But we were lucky to meet Alastair in Palmerston North so even if it wasn't the first PDML meeting in New Zealand, it was most probably the first on the North Island. ;-) Alastair kindly brought some very interesting Pentax gear to our meeting so I had an opportunity to try for example SMC Pentax A* 200 lens - the first star lens I've ever seen in person. Thank you, Alastair! It was a quite short visit to this beautiful country but it was certainly worth flying around the world to see it. We changed our itinerary in the middle for a more relaxed route which means we left some parts (most notably western shore glaciers, north of the South Island and Kaikoura) for our next visit - yes, I hope to return to Aotearoa sooner rather than later! Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
