{"id":970,"date":"2009-05-25T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/waitaki-valley-trip-%e2%80%93-day-2-highlights.html"},"modified":"2012-02-23T20:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T07:25:52","slug":"waitaki-valley-trip-day-2-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/waitaki-valley-trip-day-2-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitaki Valley Trip \u2013 Day 2 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Day 2 of the trip sees us travelling north in the early morning from Oamaru to Twizel. Along the way, we visited several hydro power stations. Unfortunately, as much as I wanted it to be, this is not a photography trip and I was unable to capture some of the spectacular views. I have probably missed a dozen of good shots due to the tight schedule.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A capture of the Southern light early in the morning<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/DSiDOqxeU28vnfu1x3j7iA?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGJsa3lxvmJOQ&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_hBHN-xn5gSU\/ShpJszCdlgI\/AAAAAAAASQM\/dD0j5rFCx7U\/s800\/_ND08733.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As we keeping driving up north, we are getting closer to the snow mountains far ahead<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/tRDRD9QfO_Q1GJHfgnCDNA?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGJsa3lxvmJOQ&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_hBHN-xn5gSU\/ShpJxXAxLyI\/AAAAAAAASQk\/gzxkqLg4EcY\/s800\/_ND08744.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> We spent most of day 2 at Waitaki, Aviemore and Benmore power stations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Spectacular view around transmission tower<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/WQ30UdT4yrVJgdqqrKwWhQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGJsa3lxvmJOQ&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_hBHN-xn5gSU\/ShpJwI7Fr4I\/AAAAAAAASQc\/Z747ILz5M5c\/s800\/_ND08742.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The spilling continues at many Hydro stations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hydro station spilling<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/Tj65hFZ-Bdycfw3DzwJoyA?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGJsa3lxvmJOQ&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_hBHN-xn5gSU\/ShpJ1lW6QLI\/AAAAAAAASQ8\/nzLQ1BgSVDU\/s800\/_ND08781.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">At the end of day, we continued the trip travelling north and ended the night at Twizel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Southern Twilight<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/4H9PdVSM0TPV9vJdKLKTEA?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGJsa3lxvmJOQ&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_hBHN-xn5gSU\/ShpJ8U-u3iI\/AAAAAAAASRo\/rQjwFRUPcPA\/s800\/_ND08818.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of the trip sees us travelling north in the early morning from Oamaru to Twizel. Along the way, we visited several hydro power stations. Unfortunately, as much as I wanted it to be, this is not a photography trip and I was unable to capture some of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[223,3],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-14-24mm-f2-8","tag-nikon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentyuphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}