Holiday/favourite place pics

[Skylar]

This thread has come about due to a chatbox conversation today. Thought it would be interesting for people to post some pics of their holiday destinations or just their favourite places to be.
Might give any budding travellers some ideas as well. Hopefully some you have some pics of really interesting places like Uzbekistan or Mongolia or Rwanda or just of your favourite park. Please post pics of your favourites!

I'l kick this off with some snaps from New Zealand. Not too far abroad, but I love it there, would move there in a minute if I could get a decent job. I'll warn you that I am the world's most craptastic photographer.

This is Kaikoura. These pics are not zoomed in, you can actually just walk out amongst the seals. If you get too close, they'll bark at you.

klx140kid on White Island. It's an active volcano and uninhabitable.

Looking out over Lake Wakatipu from the balcony of our holiday house in Queenstown. My favourite place in the world. Gorgeous in spring in this photo, absolutely spectacular in winter. To the left is The Remarkables, one of only two mountain ranges in the world than run true North/South. The other is The Rockies.

Heli-hiking up on Franz Josef Glacier. One of the most amazing experiences of my life.

Fox Glacier from the base. You can see the little black dots of people just to give you some idea of the scale. About every 12 months some nob will climb the rope and a chunk of ice the size of a car will fall off and kill them. It's amazing when the chunks come off... the sound is unbelievable. But I don't want to be anywhere near it thanks!

 

[CHINA-RIDER]

Looks great Skylar, my cousin just got back form NZ and had a great time. He and his girlfriend hired a motor home and road triped it, and had a blast his high light was a chopper flight over the snow toped mountains.

Ill have some photos up tomorrow of diving lady elliot for ya.

 

[CHINA-RIDER]

Photos I had taken from Lady Elliot Island 2006

 

[CHINA-RIDER]

The old man and I, in under water cave, note I was 16.

 

[CHINA-RIDER]

 

[coolmodee01]

these are a few of my favorite things

mate's property up in jamieson so much serenity

nice view of coolum beach great little spot on the sunny coast

if i had to pic between the 2 it would have to be jamieson i love the bush before the beach everytime

 

[topguntravis]

Riders, meet 3RiderLand. Some may call it heaven on earth. This was years of work of dirt jump riders building their paradise by the Maribyrnong River here in Melbourne.
Zoom in and have a look.

Unfortunately in 2006 the Council demolished it all flat!

 

[pbk]

if it wasnt the council who did it would have been some other prick!!!

 

[topguntravis]

Unfortunately in 2006 the Council demolished it all flat!

I said the council demolished it...

 

[pbk]

I said the council demolished it...

what i was meant to say was if the council hadnt already destroyed i reckon some prick would of done it

i have built dirt jumps so many times and half the time some **** thinks it funny to destroy them

 

[topguntravis]

Yeh I know what ya mean. But this was around for quite a few years coz it was an old quarry.

 

[CHINA-RIDER]

The council ruined some jumps that had been built in the bush for years, and was right next to the school, so when you rode to school you would hang out at the jumps before and after school.

They demolished it cleard all the land and said in replacement they would build us a bmx track plus a skate park.

Instead they sold most to land for housing and stuck a real lame play ground in about 4-5 years to late.

I had seen all the plans and everything and it all just went in the bin.

Yeah, so to see that council ruin those jumps was so dud now no one can use the land.