Left the airport and heading to Te Anue. Country reminded us of the Sun Valley area in Idaho. |
The green pastures with the sheep always looked so beautiful. |
Elder Murdock is enjoying some buff oysters. Looked very disgusting to Sister Murdock! |
Here is Sister Murdock's meal, her first good steak and shrimp since leaving Tonga! |
This is on our way to Milford Sound. The mountains were amazing! |
This little lake was called Mirror Lake. As you can see why! |
This is Lake Gunn, so beautiful with all the pine covered mountains! |
Another look at Lake Gunn. |
The mountains were so amazing. Each bend in the road brought another beautiful sight to behold! |
Another stop to see the mountains on our way to Milford Sound. |
This is at the head of Milford Sound. We went for a walk along the water. |
This is also at the head of Milford Sound. |
Here is our boat that we will be taking our tour of Milford Sound on. |
A beautiful waterfall in Milford Sound. |
Looking back at the head of Milford Sound. |
All along the way there were waterfalls coming from the glaciers. |
The mountain cliffs were so straight up and very tall. |
More water falls. |
This one was unique with the rainbow! |
This is taken from the top of our tour boat looking back at some of the waterfalls. |
Here is an attempt of a slefie by Sister Murdock. |
Here our tour guide is taking us under the waterfall. Thankfully we had our raincoats on. It was a little cold and wet! |
Another beautiful water fall! |
The mountains were so beautiful and huge! |
Here is a field full of deer. They raise them here. Maybe this is where Elder Murdock's meal was from he ate the other night. |
Our next stop was in Queenstown. Sister Murdock "willingly" rode the gondola with Elder Murdock. This was the pictures that Elder Murdock took as Sister Murdock could not look! |
Another view of Queenstown from the top of the Gondola platform. So very beautiful. |
Sister Murdock had to keep her back to the sight to have this picture taken. It was pretty scary to her! |
More views of Queenstown from the Gondola platform. |
Also at the top was a luge ride. We kept thinking how much our grand kids and our children would love this! |
This was a world map made out of jelly-belly jellybeans. |
While in Queenstown we went on a steamship to a place for a dinner and tour of the sheep ranch at Ben Lomond Scenic Reserve on Lake Wakatipu. |
Here we are heading into the Ranch House where we will have our dinner. it was very beautiful with flowers everywhere. We had a wonderful meal! |
This is a picture of the steamboat that we just got off. It was very unique. |
On the tour this gentlemen sheared a sheep for us and gave us some history of sheep ranching. |
Here the poor thing is naked! |
On Sunday we went for a drive to see the country and came upon this beautiful field of cattle. |
This is a view of Lake Wakatipu from the road that we were driving down. So very beautiful! |
Here another field of sheep. The pictures just do not do it justice to see these white animals in the beautiful green fields. |
This is some of the scenes we found on our drive to Christchurch. It was amazing to see the fall colors in the leaves of the trees. |
More fall colors of the trees. |
The sign called this Roaring Meg. We were expecting much larger falls than this, but it was still nice. |
Here we are in Christchurch and Elder Murdock liked to find the highest mountain to drive on for the wonderful views. |
This is an inlet of the ocean with this little town nestled next to it. We were again on top of a very high mountain. |
Here we are overlooking Christchurch. |
This is in Christchurch. There was a wonderful walking path along the beach. |
This was New Brighton Pier in Christchurch. Very nice beaches, but it was very cold! |
There was an Air Force Museum that we went to see. It was not as big as Hill Air Force Base's. |
Some of the planes on display. |
They had a helicopter on display as well. |
This is another high mountain that we found while driving to see the area. It overlooked this inlet from the ocean. |
Another view from this high mountain. Sister Murdock was a little nervous as it was very high! |
"We should feel gratitude of our circumstances. I have thought sometimes that one of the greatest virtues the Latter-day Saints could possess is gratitude to our Heavenly Father for that which He has bestowed upon us and the path over which He has led us." Lorenzo Snow