And then there was silence...
Door: Willem & Michelle
Blijf op de hoogte en volg Willem & Michelle
24 Januari 2014 | Nieuw Zeeland, Dunedin
We slept like babies and the start of the engine wakes us. It’s already almost 7 o’clock so we have to hurry to be at the breakfast in time. The weather is better but there is no sunshine.
The program of this morning is to sail to the most beautiful arm of the sound and there all engines and generators will be shut off to experience real silence.
Again the landscape is magnificent. There is almost now wind any more so the water is a mirror and reflects the steep mountains into the water. Breathless….
At some point Carol tells us that we will slowly get to the shut off of all engines. The ship starts to slow down…only a few wrinkles can be seen in the water. Carol asks us, when all engines and generators will have been shut off, not to speak, not to move (because of the noise of the nylon jackets), even not to take pictures to experience true silence.
Only when the last generator has been turned off we realize how much noise he was making.
The only sound left is a far away waterfall and a few birds and the rest is……silence.
A truly exceptional experience and it makes Michelle cry…
You’d like to extend the experience but alas the engines are turned on again and we are brought back to reality.
The view in this arm even more magnificent and we can’t stop making pictures and films.
We can see more of the mountains and indeed most of the waterfalls vanished overnight, very strange.
This time the Wilcot pass is free from clouds when we return by New Zealand’s most expensive road. A superb view when we look back down and far away into the sound. It’s almost unreal and our stay between the steep mountains and the true silence experience seem already ages away...
The weather is getting better and better and when we get off the boat the sky is blue and we are surrounded by snow capped mountains, this time much further away from us.
Our next stop will be Dunedin, a city founded by the Scottish on the East coast with a big university.
Carole promised us a wonderful trip crossing large and rich farmland. And that’s what we get. Huge properties with beautiful farm houses. Sheep, sheep and sheep but also cattle.
We find a camping site at the entrance of Otago Peninsula at the border of the city. There should be a bus to the city to be able to go into the city without having to park a big car and we will be right where we want to be tomorrow, as on Dunedin’s Taiaroa Head on the peninsula lives the only mainland Royal Albatross breeding colony in the world. And we will also visit the yellow eyed penguins, the most endangered species, in their natural habitat.
But at first we have a walk to the beach. There is a small hidden path from the corner of the camper park to the sea. The New Zealand Christmas trees, on the way to the beach, which we have seen everywhere, seem more colorful here.
Incredible, this is a university city and there is almost nobody on the beautiful beach!! And nowhere a place to have a drink there!
But our temporary house is comfortable and warm.
The program of this morning is to sail to the most beautiful arm of the sound and there all engines and generators will be shut off to experience real silence.
Again the landscape is magnificent. There is almost now wind any more so the water is a mirror and reflects the steep mountains into the water. Breathless….
At some point Carol tells us that we will slowly get to the shut off of all engines. The ship starts to slow down…only a few wrinkles can be seen in the water. Carol asks us, when all engines and generators will have been shut off, not to speak, not to move (because of the noise of the nylon jackets), even not to take pictures to experience true silence.
Only when the last generator has been turned off we realize how much noise he was making.
The only sound left is a far away waterfall and a few birds and the rest is……silence.
A truly exceptional experience and it makes Michelle cry…
You’d like to extend the experience but alas the engines are turned on again and we are brought back to reality.
The view in this arm even more magnificent and we can’t stop making pictures and films.
We can see more of the mountains and indeed most of the waterfalls vanished overnight, very strange.
This time the Wilcot pass is free from clouds when we return by New Zealand’s most expensive road. A superb view when we look back down and far away into the sound. It’s almost unreal and our stay between the steep mountains and the true silence experience seem already ages away...
The weather is getting better and better and when we get off the boat the sky is blue and we are surrounded by snow capped mountains, this time much further away from us.
Our next stop will be Dunedin, a city founded by the Scottish on the East coast with a big university.
Carole promised us a wonderful trip crossing large and rich farmland. And that’s what we get. Huge properties with beautiful farm houses. Sheep, sheep and sheep but also cattle.
We find a camping site at the entrance of Otago Peninsula at the border of the city. There should be a bus to the city to be able to go into the city without having to park a big car and we will be right where we want to be tomorrow, as on Dunedin’s Taiaroa Head on the peninsula lives the only mainland Royal Albatross breeding colony in the world. And we will also visit the yellow eyed penguins, the most endangered species, in their natural habitat.
But at first we have a walk to the beach. There is a small hidden path from the corner of the camper park to the sea. The New Zealand Christmas trees, on the way to the beach, which we have seen everywhere, seem more colorful here.
Incredible, this is a university city and there is almost nobody on the beautiful beach!! And nowhere a place to have a drink there!
But our temporary house is comfortable and warm.
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