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Arthur’s Pass, NZ (May 31, 2008)

When Mayli finally finished her Neutrino 2008 conference, we left Christchurch for Arthur’s pass. We drove for a few hours up Route 73, until we reached the pass. As you can see in the photo, the weather was very cloudy. Still, as we were approaching the pass, we could see very spectacular mountains flanking the road.

We stopped briefly at the pass to take some pictures. While I was taking my photos I was called by the occupants of a car. It turned out that the people calling me were a nice couple of retired New Zealanders from Christchurch, driving through Arthur’s pass on a photographic expedition. They had Nikons (a D100, a D300 and a D1) and were very happy to see that I also had a Nikon. They were really nice guys and we had a very pleasant conversation. As you can see in the photo on the right, Mayli after some time got bored of waiting, and took a picture of me talking with them.

Despite the bad weather, there were a lot of people leaving the cars and going for a hike. A lot of people were walking in the direction of the weird rock formation you can se in the panorama below, made of a line of boulders standing like sentinels watching the pass.

Arthur’s pass, NZ (May 31, 2008)