New Zealand the Mysteries of the South Island
By Gregg Forscher
The Maori name is Te Wai Poumamu and this means: The Water/s of Greenstone.
The Cook Strait leads you to the top of the South Island and The Marlborough Sounds, a beautiful series of islands (they are sea drowned valleys) reachable mostly only by boat and home to a small group of individual people who meet socially by boat. The quiet peace and tranquility can be felt.
The South Island land is mountainous: rugged rivers, rocks and streams and sometimes grey and harsh and sharp with wild seas in the grey days of winter. Seemingly in contrast, Nelson, at the top of the South Island, boasts the highest number of sunshine hours for the country. They certainly grow the most delicious fruit and apples are famous. The sun is always to be found somewhere in New Zealand.
The South Island is less populated than the North Island and has vast areas of wilderness. It has more land mass than the North Island. It has plenty of places where no car can go but maybe horse or only helicopter. If you want to go where there are no other people and wide-open spaces where you can travel for days by foot and not meet another person, the South Island is for you.
Its scenery is gasping to look at in its stark beauty, deer farming, sheep stations, amazing bird life, miles of track to walk for days, skiing and plenty of fresh clean air.
Imagine swimming in a rocky mountain river in the middle of summer and the water is sooo cold.
Imagine standing alone on a windswept beach on the East Coast of the South Island and watching the grey sea lash the shore and rocks.
You can view the most amazing glaciers: the Fox Glacier and the Franz Josef Glacier.
The Southern Alps carry Mt Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand at 3764 metres and you can ski the Tasman Glacier.
Christchurch, in the region of Canterbury, is the biggest city in the South Island and it is very reminiscent of an English town with the River Avon running through it.
Dunedin, further South but on the same East Coast is the second largest city in the South Island in the region of Otago and has a distinctly Scottish heritage.
Off the bottom of the South Island we find Stewart Island and below that Antarctica.
For the most rugged and adventurous get-aways the South Island is for you, not only because of the terrain but also that pioneering New Zealand spirit that is attracted to the most challenging and daring to conquer. Good hunting.
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