Icebergs off the Otago Peninsula.
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Icebergs off the Otago Peninsula.
Yes its for real ...I thought id drive home over the high road 300 metres above sea level. Sure enough as I rounded a bend with a huge sweep of the Pacific ocean visible there they were plain and easy to see with the naked eye.
A truely awsome sight.
How cools that.
A truely awsome sight.
How cools that.
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Air NZ did their bit: wifey was flying up to Wtn from Dunedin this morning and the flight diverted to sightsee over the 'bergs! Lucky thing!
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some great news coverage on TV1 2 nite
they said it would have taken 5 years for them to travel that far north!
i would love to be able to see them close up
they said it would have taken 5 years for them to travel that far north!
i would love to be able to see them close up
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Posts 4, 5, and 6 in here have photos of them...
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There must be a good number of icebergs off the coast.
Took my daughter up onto the tops last night and good easily see another even bigger iceberg on the horizon. There along way off the coast but none the less easily spotted, quite a surreal vista given the latitude.
Took my daughter up onto the tops last night and good easily see another even bigger iceberg on the horizon. There along way off the coast but none the less easily spotted, quite a surreal vista given the latitude.
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It's a real shame with all the low cloud and drizzle that has settled in Dunedin overnight and today - 'bergwatching was starting to become a local craze! Took the daughters up to Signal Hill last night and we could _just_ make out a berg on the horizon using 10x50 'noks. Reports in the ODT today are saying there are more to the south coming up.
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Yes thats right between Sandymount and Pukehiki stopped just opposite the big stone house. Just been back up and there is one to be seen on the horizon south of the Cape.[/quote]Hey Janos, is "along the tops" Highcliff Rd? I drove out to Cape Saunders yesterday morning and could JUST barely see a berg with my naked eyes. A fellow spotter had binoculars which confirmed the sighting.
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