good morning from middle-earth we are in New Zealand and it's gorgeous I wanted
to come here ever since I watched Lord of the Rings of course and it's finally
finally true I'm here we arrived yesterday at the airport we had a few
hiccups we had to have my boots clean because I had soil from the UK and
here's a tip for you international travelers if you don't have licence that
has English on it you need to get it translated so we had to wait an hour for
my lashes to get translated from greek to english we were on our way we drove
through arthur's pass which is a beautiful drive beautiful beautiful
drive
and arrived at hokitika last night where we stayed after we dropped our things
off at the Airbnb we drove to very closeby area where they have these
beautiful woodland paths with glowing worms I didn't film anything because it
was super dark but I tried to take some pictures if they're any good I'm gonna
show you now
just being there and seeing the glowing worms was super beautiful it was like
looking at stars up close so I suggest if you're ever at hockey teeka go and
check that out that night because obviously a day it's not gonna be right
anyway and today this morning we drove over to
franz josef glacier where we're supposed to have a helicopter ride up to the
glacier but the weather is not allowing us to do that so we've just come to the
glacier and we're gonna do the hike up to it and have a look up close so let's
go do that
so yeah this is the South Island of New Zealand I didn't mention that and of
course I'm here with Chris hunt and it started raining so we're going back to
the car to grab an umbrella and be prepared that's better
so the hike is about an hour and a half there and back
a perfect warm-up for our trip yes it's in the rainforest it's crazy
a glacier in the rainforest that we've seen that before because I haven't
that was really beautiful but also extremely sad because apparently just
ten years ago the glacier used to end right here and a hundred years ago
it ended all the way up there so I'm fearing that 50 hundred years there
won't be any glaciers left
so a hundred years ago that glacier was all the way here
was a really nice experience now we're starving so we're gonna head back to
Franz Josef village to have some lunch and then we're gonna drive to one that
car I think I'm saying those things right
so being quite like you with this topical storm because it started as soon
as we finish that glacial walk and every time we stop for a quick touch stop to
check out some sightings it stops and then starts stops we haven't gotten very
wet yet
stuffed by some really nice little pulse but it's raining really having the movie
wearing full waterproof years you're gonna breathe them
we've made it to our destination one naka and we missed most of the good
light but your foot would come to the famous lonely tree to scout and take a
couple of pictures - why not it's still a bit of a blue hour and going on so it
should be nice plus there's nobody here enough which is
always great
good morning from Monica Lake we're here at that famous tree in the lake and it's
really beautiful the backdrop with the mountains the tree in the lake and the
crispy air it's really really nice obviously there's a lot of people here
at this time because it's like 10 o'clock in the morning we kind of slept
in this morning so we miss the sunrise but still feel beautiful the line is
very soft here in New Zealand so it's doing us all the favors got a 10 stop ND
filter with polarization on it not turned on all the way because I want
some reflection on the water and I'm shooting f11 and it's about a 20 second
exposure which softens out that water and the clouds over the mountains in the
back which is quite nice
that was so nice now I need breakfast
we're on our way to Queenstown now but we've made a pit stop at arrow town
which is an old prospector town before town that looks very busy so
we have made it to Queenstown to check out this beautiful view
we're now on our way to our next destination which is tianyu and pure old
land National Park
today we're gonna go on a cruise of the few lance and milford sound
you