Christchurch

First stop warm weather in New Zealand. I couldn't understand why the airport would go to the trouble of putting big blue footprint tracks leading from CHC airport to the US Antarctic Travel Office just for people like me going to coordinate the flight to McMurdo base, Antarctica - until I realized that the kooky "Antarctic Centre" is really what they were leading to. Here's a few pictures from the Antarctic Centre and also from the B&B and around Christchurch (which is a great city!).