Part 2: Pictures!

Here are a few of the pictures that we got on the Pukerangi to Middlemarch trip last weekend. They take forever to upload because wireless here is just not the same. Neither is the ozone layer. Yes kids, all those stories you've heard about the ozone hole are true. Most of me is fine, but i missed sunscreaning a bit of my front and it is brutally purple and it really really hurts. I never ever get burns like this, I'm too yellow! But not here. Here the sun is king and all that polution is starting to really hurt. In the first picture- what is to the best of our knowledge and references is a rock that is used in the Two Towers (!) There were lots of sheep around it, but I guess they just edited them out or cleared the fields. The next two are of what we could see leaning out of the train on the way here. The scenery changes pretty rapidly. At first there were very high moutains (like in BC, not the Rockys) and they were covered with pines and palm trees! Then it evens out and becomes more arid and populated by sheep. The next morning on our trek out to the train again we of course had to take a picture beside the one billboard in Middlemarch. What else but Speights! Pride of the South! We love the Southern Man.