The peak to the left in the photo is Cecil Peak (1,974 meters); the one to the right is Walter Peak (1,815 meters). That is, if I’m reading my topo map correctly.
The peak to the left in the photo is Cecil Peak (1,974 meters); the one to the right is Walter Peak (1,815 meters). That is, if I’m reading my topo map correctly.
Lake Alta is a small ‘cirque’ glacial lake at about 1,800 meters above sea level in The Remarkables. The two peaks in the background are the ‘Double Cone’ — 2,319 meters.
I took this photo from the edge of the rough gravel road that leads straight up the side of The Remarkables mountains.
It was a 600 km bus ride round trip from Queenstown, but Milford Sound was worth the trip — it’s a wild, strange place. The annual rain at Milford Sound is about 6 meters! This year, most of that rain happened to fall yesterday.
It was a long night on Rod Laver, and it certainly wasn’t pretty, but early this morning Laura Robson defeated Petra Kvitova 2-6, 6-3, 11-9. As my photo shows, Robson wore tennis whites. At the Australian Open, tennis whites are so hopelessly old fashioned Robson might as well have worn a corset. (in 1919, Suzanne Lenglen was the first woman to play on the old Centre Court without a corset). By wearing tennis whites on Rod Laver surely Robson was giving a nod to a future championship on Centre Court!