Broken Hill Dust storm NSW

The Grossglockner mountain road, Austria

This is the highest road in the European Alps. It is only open from May 1ts onwards until autumn. The road is one way and if I remember correctly the toll is about 28Euros.

Kanagra Walls plateaux

The plateau on the right can be traversed and then other walking routes can be be picked up to find your way into the valley or you cam try your luck by bush bashing straight down, a good 3.5 hour effort!!

Kanagra Boyd National Park NSW, Kanagra Walls

This view is taken on the first part of the walk form the end of the road as you start to walk to the beginning of the plateau climb. The whole area is pristine with wedged tail eagles soaring off the warm air currents from the cliff walls. The water in the valleys is crystal clear and lovely to drink but the walking can get quit hard to get down/up from the valley bottom.

Stonehenge, Sailsbery Plain UK

Always a cold windy place every time I visit.

The Riverside Hotel, Kendal, Lake District UK

The Riverside Hotel is a quaint old hotel in Kendal, the Lake District. I stayed there last year on a walking trip to the area. Kendal is a town that has a horrible one way system with mad traffic jams during July. Trying to get to the hotel even though you keep passing it is a real accomplishment. I drove around the entire town 3 times before I managed it and then only when I had given up and was leaving the town!!

The second lake at Konigsee, Barvaria Germany

Taken last summer ( Northern hemisphere not southern that is). A lovely walk after you alight the boat from the first lake. Stopped for a cold beer before the walk.

The cold road to Lake Tekapo. South Island NZ

A long cold road to see the mountains

Routeburn track, Glenorchy NZ

At the beginning of the track. A beautiful walk even in the snow

Cold Mountain.... Queens Town NZ

At the back of Queens Town, very cold... the winter temperature is normally around -25C at this height. very barren and definitely no animals except us !

Peaks and Clouds, Queens Town NZ

Another shot taken from Coronet Peak on a beautiful day of about 4C.Lots of clouds hugging the valleys

Mountain Peaks Queens Town NZ

Taken from Coronet Peak ski resort. I used a 300mm zoom lens with a tripod to get this picture. One of the main problems photographing up at such altitudes are the ultra violet rays. Unfortunately I do not have a lens for my zoom.

Quad bikes on the mountain Queens Town NZ

This quad bikes are fantastic fun for 4wd driving up the mountains. A highly recommended fun thing to do. They handle slopes, streams and ditches well. The views at the top were literally spectacular.
This one adventure I would do again and again

On the road to Glenorchy NZ South Island

This shot was taken early in the morning on our way to the Routeburn walking track about 40 mins from Glenorchy. The weather was cold and expecting snow in the mountains which eventually occurred. The walk on the track was good but cold.

A lovely view from the top of Queenstown Hill

On top of Queens town Hill, very cold. We stopped off the quad bikes to take this picture. the temperature was well below 0C. The usual temperature in winter here is -25C. The quad bikes were fantastic for climbing the slopes and navigating the streams and ditches

Queens Town Wharf

A bright sunny morning in Queens Town New Zealand. This picture was taken last week and even though the day was glorious sunshine the temperature was around 4C. Living in Australia these are normally overnight temperatures but you get used to them. It has been along while since I have had to experience the cold as where I live on the NSW central coast the days are much warmer.
New Zealand very much reminds me of the UK ( not the scenery of course). The Kiwi acent is a bit hard to get used to though!!!

Evening approaches at the start of the road into Skippers Canyon

Skippers Canyon in New Zealand is where all the adrenalin activities take place ( well some of them) also some of the Lord of the Rings filming was done there ie the black riders crossing the river in pursuit... because the river in the canyon was to wild for the horses to cross they filmed the crossing elsewhere and merged the lower half with the top view in Skippers canyon.

An Evening View at Queenstown New Zealand

Arrived in Queens town in the evening and took this photograph from the hotel window.
The day was a warmish 2C. A beautiful spot though, well worth a visit

Top of the world New Zealand

A tad cold at -25C but what a view!! from a trip last week

The Mews Stamford England

English Pub ; Castor Lincolnshire England

An English Pub located in the village of Castor,England.

Airbus 380. Farnborough air show England.

Taken in July 2008. A marvellous piece of engineering.

Flowers in Rothenburg Ob der Tauber

The Rat Haus Munchen.

The Rat Haus in Marienplatz Munich, Barvaria Germany

Street Scene in the Medival section of Rothenburg

Hobart ( Tasmania) botanical Garden

Blue mountains walk

A view from a short walk in the Blue mountains.The weather was sunny with the temperature around 16C. The canyon goes around to the left to an area called Govets leap. I have never walked down into this canyon yet but I hope to do dso. The walk is very hard

Sydney harbour one christmas.

This shot was taken from a yatch trip,unfortunately too close to include the harbour bridge!!

Japanese Bridge,Auburn gardens, Sydney NSW

A scene from the Japanese gardens again. A very pleasant spot.