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New Zealand Alps visible, at last

After days of almost-continuous rain the clouds suddenly lifted…and the nation’s two highest peaks revealed themselves.

On the left is Mount Tasman (3,497 metres), on the right is Mount Cook/Aoraki (3,724 metres); Tasman looks higher simply because it is the closer peak to Lake Matheson.

Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken from Lake Matheson a whisker after sunset, at 8.01 pm on Saturday 16 March 2019.

Much more of NZ’s South Island to come, eventually….

Published in nature and travel New Zealand photographs

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  1. Bob Evans Bob Evans

    Hi Doug, the photo was worth the wait. You’re lucky to be enjoying the view. Yesterday my partner and I attended the opening of a new exhibition of Peter Dombrowskis photos of Tasmania, concentrating on the the Franklin, Cradle Mountain and Mt Wellington at the Monash Art Gallery introduced by Dr Les Walkling.

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