Return in Pictures
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 21 Jul 2014 22:57
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Our Return Journey from
Greymouth to Christchurch
  From Greymouth, the train travels east through lush
alpine beech rain forests of the South Island’s west coast towards the Southern
Alps, ascending through the Otira tunnel to the alpine village of Arthurs Pass –
a base to explore Arthurs Pass National Park. From Arthurs Pass the train slowly
descends through spectacular gorges and river valleys of the Waimakariri River,
crossing the Canterbury Plains to Christchurch – known as the garden city and
the South Island’s largest city. This rail trip is 223.8 kilometres long and
took four and a half hours. There were nineteen tunnels, and four viaducts, the
highest being the Staircase standing at 73
metres.
  The biggest sheep farm in the area
– third in size land holding in the country, stretches forty five miles from
front gate to back gate.
                        ALL IN ALL A WONDERFUL DAY WITH A SMILING
BEAR
OH
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