So when most people heard us geographers were off to New Zealand's South Island for a field trip, they began to question if they were even doing the right degree!
After some 11,000 miles of travelling with stop off's in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne we were super excited to finally be landing in Auckland with the prospect of only one more hour long flight to Queenstown the next day!
It was so relieving to stand outside the airport and breath the free air again! You'd be surprised how much a person can miss fresh air after 37 hours away from it. We headed straight from the airport to our Nomad's 12 bed hostel room....
After some 11,000 miles of travelling with stop off's in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne we were super excited to finally be landing in Auckland with the prospect of only one more hour long flight to Queenstown the next day!
It was so relieving to stand outside the airport and breath the free air again! You'd be surprised how much a person can miss fresh air after 37 hours away from it. We headed straight from the airport to our Nomad's 12 bed hostel room....
We ended up staying with these guys in Queenstown, Wellington and Auckland again a month later, so check them out if your heading down under!
We decided to celebrate our arrival into NZ with oriental food! Unfortunately we ended up going for the cheapest place we could find and three out of five of us ended up with food poisoning, not me luckily!
The next day we headed to Queenstown to begin the field trip and ended up meeting loads of people on our trip on the plane and in our hostel room coincidentally enough!
And now i'll show you what happened next.... (These are probably not in order btw :P)
Goodbye Auckland!
A thigh burning walk if you attempt it in 15 minutes, which our trip leaders made us do haha!
Scenic fieldwork site eh?
Lake Wakatipu, a 40 second walk from my room at Kinloch :D
Bunk bed cupboard room fun :P
Auckland--->Queenstown
Lake Wakatipu @ Queenstown
More fieldwork fun, we were supposed to be paddling in the river with oranges...
Independent project day in Mt Cook national park, spot the bridge we had to walk over!
The Mueller glacier obscured by cloud!
Debris cone ;)
Bus journey times :)
Looking epic in Mt Cook national park with our geomorphological maps.
It's VEGETATION!!
Mt Cook and the Tasman glacier with proglacial lake.
Me hard at work on one of the many moraines we visited that day...
Flying into Queenstown airport, the most scenic airport you will ever find!
The Mueller glacier once again!
Jumping off the jetty in the second photo into lake Wakatipu, it was a little cold but great fun!
Lake Wakatipu at Glenorchy, the area where Isenguard in LOTR's was filmed!
Queenstown airport, OMG :D
Memorial of a landslide/avalanche accident in Mt Cook national park.
Auckland is a pretty cool city.
Relaxing on the job, it was very warm.... haha
Me and Melissa in front of lake Wakatipu.
Investigating flood height on the Shotover river.
Mt Cook sunset, view from our accommodation. (Alpine Lodge)
So students, how did that big rock get there? Erm....
Beast of a cricket!
Geomorphological drawing fun.
Waiho loop moraine walk (near Canavan's Knob) haha
Proglacial lake of the Tasman glacier.
River paddling, it was fed by glacial melt water so it was pretty damn cold!
View from our hostel roof in Auckland (Nomad's)
Global Culture <3
Volcano from the sky!
The sickly Fox glacier.
So once again I have managed to bombard you with various images of my adventures, I feel they speak more words than I do!
We also visited the Hooker glacier although I seem to have lost my picture of it! We did end up doing some work and managed to measure river velocity, create geomorphological maps, use GIS and GPS to measure river channel migration, hiked up a glacier to observe glacial features (Yeah right ;) ), measured various moraines to figure out the origin of the material and got drunk in Queenstown.
Successful trip #Geography@Aberystwyth
