For a week now a solo tramper has been missing over in the Ahuriri Valley. It’s a bit of mystery where he is! Each day Wanaka Search and Rescue has fielded some teams, and on Friday two car loads of us drove over the Lindis, to add to other volunteers from all surrounding areas,...
I’m just back from a trip to Dunedin getting my son’s furniture down for his second year at Uni. studying chemistry and physics, but this is his first year flatting. All I can comment on is I’m witnessing an accumulation of worldly possessions, and this is handy as I’m at a stage of wishing...
Lake Rere is accessed from the less populated southern shoreline of Lake Wakatipu, from either Elfin Bay or the Greenstone Valley and was a popular tourist destination in the late 19th century. I’d heard of it years ago, but left it un-tramped. This was my loss as it’s a stunning 6 hour loop track...
Since I’d not been to the Dunedin for awhile, the nearest large city to where I live, a couple of weeks ago I trundled off in the first rain we’d had for ages, for a little break. There was some heavy rain in the Maniototo so water on the Pigroot highway… Getting near the...
Dear Readers It’s been a very special few days here in Wanaka. Not because of the sudden influx of party goers and holiday makers, most relaxed, sadly many drunk. No, not the many nubile young woman on the lake’s beaches either! Instead my friend Bob McKerrow, humanitarian with the International Red Cross and mountaineer,...
I seem to have been all over locally in the last week. With springtime ski touring on x/c skis a “happening” thing , but then there are the delights warmer temperatures bring, such as a bush walk at nearby Kidds Bush in...
It’s been a long time, my getting around to walking the Milford Track that traverses the northern end of Fiordland National Park. It’s an icon – maybe that is why! A close friend, a vet of many big mountain trips told me he’d found it harder than he thought it’d be. Well ditto Donald!...
Last Sunday I had the opportunity to take a few more shots while helping search for a missing tramper ....
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Ceilidh at the Snow Farm
Cardrona valley hoar frost, Central Otago, New Zealand
Historic Bendigo gold diggings - Central Otago, New Zealand
Poolburn, Central Otago, NZ ~ Mylee and the fisherman
Waiau bridge enroute to the Kepler Track
Roger and Kara ~ wedding, Lake Wanaka
Folk singer Phil Garland at the Cardrona Folk Festival
St Kilda beach ~ Dunedin
Bendigo historic gold diggings ~ Central Otago NZ
Meg Hut - Central Otago
Lake Wanaka
Nesting banded dotterel ~ Bird survey - Makarora
New Zealand falcon ~ Benmore Peak, Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand
A New Zealand endangered species ~ buff weka family
Autumn in my garden
Ice plant ~ Otago Harbour
Rhododendron ~ Wanaka Station Park
Dunedin Botanical Gardens
In amongst Mt Alpha bluffs with my ever enduring companion
Roys Peak from Damper Bay Lake Wanaka NZ
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A random selection of about 20 of Donald's images
Concepts on how New Zealand landscape photography and fine art can be used to stimulate our imaginations to make the world a better and more gentle place.
With photos, and some words, we explore with nomadic tendencies and inherited wizardry, all that is New Zealand, and it did not all begin with Lord of the Rings!
Cheers Donald Lousley
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