Tall Matt's Travels

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
~ Charles Horton Cooley

New Zealand is a place unlike any other. This little country has absolutely everything. Beaches, mountains, lakes, glaciers, sweeping plains, volcanoes, sheep, hobbits... You can see it all here.

Below are some of my favorite scenes so far. I won't waste a lot of words - they are far too small to describe what I've seen.

Christchurch: Punting on the Avon River

Greymouth: Tasman Sea

Near Franz Josef: Rusted tractor

Matheson Lake: Fern Fronds

Wanaka: Lake Wanaka

Queenstown: AJ Hackett's Bungy

Queenstown: Lake Wakatipu

Queenstown: Divers

Moeraki: Moeraki Boulder

Moeraki: Moeraki Boulders

Lake Pukaki: View of Mt. Cook

Lake Tekapo: Church of the Good Shepherd

Kaikoura: White Anchor