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The iconic Victorian buildings of Otago University, remind visitors of its early European settlers.

The emblem for the USCSS Otago, a ship crewed by 82Bit Gaming's Alien RPG players.

Otago Harbour, New Zealand 3H1002.0410 Nikon D300 | Nikon 18-200VR @ 56 mm f/18 1/100s ISO200 | Raw Featured in Nautical (4 August 2016) Featured in A Love of Boats (7 August 2016) Featured in Harbour Life (17 August 2016) Featured in Haka...Land of the Long White Cloud... (11 September 2016)

Matanaka Farm is near Waikouaiti in Otago, New Zealand. The five buildings are the oldest surviving farm buildings that are still in their original position in the country. The farm is owned and administered by Heritage New Zealand

New Zealand Road Signage - Bluff (Southland/Otago)

New Zealand Road Signage - Oban (Southland/Otago)

New Zealand Road Signage - Riverton (Southland/Otago)

New Zealand Road Signage - Clinton (Southland/Otago)

New Zealand Road Signage - Edendale (Southland/Otago)

New Zealand Road Signage - Winton (Southland/Otago)

Fluffy grass seed heads of the toetoe plant wavering in the breeze against a bright blue sky.

Sunrise lighting up everything around Lake Wanaka -- the clouds, the mountains of Mount Aspiring National Park, and the lake itself -- in a gorgeous pastel pink colour. It only lasted for a few minutes, but it was worth the early wakeup call (as well as standing knee-deep in freezing water to get the shot)!

New Zealand Road Signage - Owaka (Southland/Otago)

New Zealand Road Signage - Mataura (Southland/Otago)

All I can think of when I see this photo is how cold my feet were when I took it! I decided not to inundate my boots, so instead waded into the glacial Matukituki River barefoot. The pins and needles had me dancing on the bank for minutes afterward!

Hooker Lake

"That Wanaka Tree," Wanaka's most famous resident, standing tall above the water on Christmas Day, 2014.

Mount Cook framed

clay cliffs

flax seed heads

clouds and trees

lake pukaki

Cruising down the gravel road between Treble Cone and the Rob Roy Glacier in the Matukituki Valley.

tree trunks

reaching high

The gorgeous Matukituki River in Mount Aspiring National Park, as seen from the swing bridge for hikers heading into the eastern Matukituki Valley.

The gorgeous view of the Remarkables as we cross the Kawarau River in Queenstown. What a perfect day to arrive there!

A winding dirt track beside a red iron shed on the rocky hillside at Goldfields Tourist attraction on the Kawarau River in Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.

A miners hut , close up, on rocky ground at Goldfields mining village on the Kawarau river in Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.

New Zealand - South Island, Moeraki Boulders at sunrise with a beautiful purple hue.

New Zealand - South Island, Arrowtown gold miners shack, with backlit autumn trees.

New Zealand - South Island, Moeraki Boulders at sunrise with a beautiful purple hue.

New Zealand - South Island, Arrowtown gold miners shack, with backlit autumn trees.

seaweed

One of the things I love most about New Zealand is how quickly the landscape can change. While Mackenzie country is full of golden tussock, the mountains themselves are all rock and snow. In Lindis Pass, which traverses the mountains on the road between Tekapo and Wanaka, the tussock carpeted everything all the way to the peaks of the mountains. It made the whole area feel a bit desolate, yet starkly beautiful at the same time.

Mountain bikers know about Coronet Peak in summer, but it seems like not many people in the general public did! After buying a $15 roundtrip chairlift ticket, we rode to the top and walked a short way up to the peak, where we found this view. The mountains were a beautiful mix of blues and golds and stretched as far as we could see. I was happy standing at this spot to take photos of the sweeping views, but I wasn't exactly game to walk out on that little ledge -- do you think you would be?