The throne room of the gods

January 2011

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January 2011

Earnslaw Burn, Mt Aspiring National Park As the sun was starting to head towards the horizon, I decided to take a step back and put on a wider lens. Leaving camp I walked through the rough tussock a few hundred metres up a little hill. At the top was a boulder the size of a […]

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