Cloudy Morning Doubtful Sound New Zealand

by Joan Carroll

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Cloudy Morning Doubtful Sound New Zealand

Artist

Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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No one lives in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, it's you and nature. For that reason, taking an overnight cruise here is one of the trips of a lifetime! Doubtful Sound / Patea is a very large and naturally imposing fiord (despite its name) in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand. "There are just a few areas left in the world where no human has ever set foot. That one of them should be in a country so civilized and so advanced as New Zealand may seem incredible, unless one has visited the south-west corner of the South Island. Jagged razor backed mountains rear their heads into the sky. More than 200 days of rain a year ensure not a tree branch is left bare and brown, moss and epiphytes drape every nook. The forest is intensely green. This is big country... one day peaceful, a study in green and blue, the next melancholy and misty, with low cloud veiling the tops... an awesome place, with its granite precipices, its hanging valleys, its earthquake faults and its thundering cascades." This was written by Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, Governor-General of New Zealand (1957-1962) but could have been written today! And could hardly have been said better.

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joan carroll, landscape, lake, water, sea, southland, clouds, steep, valley, fjord, ship, countryside, landscape, dark, cruise, mountain

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