Thank you for this .......one of the best anywhere....I drove Service Vehicles in the late 90's early 2000's on this....from Zqn Wka Haast to G'mth o'nite and return next day to Zqn........later went to Paringa River[Salmon Farm] return Zqn........this I did for 3+ years and did over 600.000 kms in that time.....I can assure you I never sickened of this fabulous journey......also meet some great people from all over the world.....thanks for a great memory
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed it, you really know these roads, I bet you could tell a few stories. I just love the scenery, especially a little further up the coast at Pancake Rocks. I have edited and uploaded the next part of this trip on to Hokitika, including a helicopter experience to Fox Glacier, unfortunately a bunch of scam artists have claimed the video, its going to take a week or two to clear the claims, how anyone can claim the sound of waves breaking on the sea shore is actually a piano concerto baffles me. This series of videos will eventually cover many of the roads on both New Zealand's South and North Islands, I hope you will join me for more virtual video adventures. Take care and stay safe. Tim.
Ah, man. I wanted to see Fox Glacier Darn it. More and more the countryside reminds me of the Central Coast of California in coloration and foliage. Except for those vast seas that NZ likes to call Lakes. I'm looking forward to the next journey.
On my first visit the glacier ended in the rain forest, a very strange sight, it has receded a little since then. I'm glad you've enjoyed the ride so far and I look forward to sharing my Fox Glacier experiences in the near future.
Hallo, ik ben blij dat je ervan genoten hebt, veel van de rivieren beginnen vanaf de ijsvelden en gletsjers hoog in de bergen. Zorg en blijf veilig. Tim.
Another wonderful scenic adventure in beautiful nz thanks tim,I'll bet your counting the day;s when you can come and visit us again down under take care cheer's bob.
Tim, another stunning compilation. What a backdrop to a tour! The distances, vistas and colours probably get shortened or diminished through the lens, from the ‘actuality!’ But from here it is awesome and magnificent. Thank you for sharing your memories and encouraging travel (when permitted) to New Zealand, especially the South Island. Peter.
Hi Peter, its hard to take in the beauty when actually there, editing the videos does give a second chance to appreciate it. The camera has difficulty conveying the height of the mountains, they rise almost straight out of the sea with just a thin band of rain forest along the coast, this is especially evident at Fox Glacier, the ice-fields are quite close to the Tasman Sea. Cheers. Tim.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I have always wanted to go there!!! It's really nice of you to show people how different places in this world look!!!!! We took our kids to Glacier park and they wanted to know where the rides are!!! "you said it was a park", there aren't any swings or even a slide"?!!! We pulled over to watch a grizzly swim across the lake towards us. My kids in the back seat scared it away!!!
@@ceciliafenner3984 Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed this virtual tour, New Zealand's location and the high mountains causes fascinating changes of scenery without travelling too far, temperate rain forest one side of the mountains and almost desert like conditions the other. I can understand your kids confusion, if they haven't been told, why wouldn't they expect Glacier Park to be anything different to a regular play park. I grew up in a small village, if I was badly behaved I was told I'd be given to the pig man, having no idea that the pig man collected waste food for his pigs I assumed he was half pig/half man, there was no way I wanted to meet such a freak of nature, so I behaved myself. I wish I'd seen that grizzly bear you saw swimming across that lake.
@@Timsvideochannel1 It was "very"*big* and they can swim "really" *FAST*!!! We were on the Blackfeet reservation just outside the park. We also had "bear" *protection*---A loaded 357magnum!!!!!
Hello Tim! Another wonderful piece of landscape. Very nice and exciting video. There's sure to be more of it. I got a new Huawei tablet yesterday. It works really well and can do a lot more, but I have to get used to it first. I hope you are fine Tim. Cheers 🍺.
Hello Hans, I love driving along the West Coast, it is so beautiful. I'm glad you are pleased with your new tablet, they take a few days to get used to, but its nice to be able to watch a bigger screen. We are keeping well here, nothing much has changed. Take care. Tim.
Hi, it's about 285 km, you might do it in around 4 to 5 hours on a good day, but I'd recommend allowing a full day if you want to stop off and enjoy the wonderful sights along the way.
On Google earth the river is Waita River - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waita_River - on the sign just before the bridge it is Ship Creek, may you aren't the first person to want to change its name.
Those dolphins..had different dorsal fins to what I'm used to seeing? P.S. Looked them up, they are on the endangered list. www.mindfood.com/article/new-zealand-not-doing-enough-to-protect-native-dolphin-species/
After reading your reply I looked on the internet to find out more, they are not the more common Bottle Nose Dolphin or Porpoises. This article gave the best likeness - animalcorner.org/animals/hectors-dolphin/#:~:text=Hector%E2%80%99s%20Dolphin%20is%20also%20known%20as%20the%20White-headed,Island%2C%20both%20dolphins%20are%20endemic%20to%20this%20island. I arrived at the same conclusion as yourself. I was incredible lucky to see such a rare creature, thank you for bringing it to my attention.
The twilight zone has got a lot to answer for, sometimes my comments disappear without trace into the RU-vid Bermuda Triangle, it can be a bit frustrating
On a serious note, Tim, had I the opportunity to make a video like this, there are several music tracks by The Shadows that I'd love to be able to use on the soundtrack that would fit this sort of scenery, but damn it all, copyright would get in the way of me using that music! Aww shucks!
@@Timsvideochannel1 I have that album and it's follow-up Volume 2 album. I also used their content on material that I burned to private DVDs, along with material by others, including guitarists, Peter Posa and Mason Williams. How I'd love to use these artists on my RU-vid content, but that bugbear of copyright gets in the way.
@@neilforbes416 Copyright is there to protect the artist, that I understand, although I think it should be time limited to 40 years. The worst abuse I see of copyright is "Thomas the Tank Engine" now worth many millions. If a heritage railways wants to use Thomas characters they have to pay a fortune for the privileged, they even tried to charge the Bluebell Railway for featuring Stepney the Bluebell engine. The Reverend Awdry would be appalled at how his books have been turned into a cynical money making machine. RU-vid inform me of all the copyright infringements on my videos, I look through them, those that are a straight forward rip off I remove, but those that credit the visual content to my channel or those simply using clips as a back ground to music I don't remove, because as I see, it if they credit the visual content it acts like an advert for my channel, in the same way, when heritage lines feature Thomas characters it acts as an advert for the rest of the Thomas franchise. Greed leads to stupid decisions.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I would have a 50-year + 1 arrangement. If a song comes out between January and June, 1969, it falls to Public Domain on 1st January, 2020. If the song is issued between July and December, 1969, it falls to Public Domain on 1st January, 2021. After a full calendar period of 50 years, a song, or instrumental track will have earned the composer(s) and/or performers plus whomever else was involved. quite a lot of "moolah", so it's time other people, like us RU-vid content creators got to use it. The only thing I would put a blanket ban on, though, is using the song or tune in TV advertising. That should be STRICTLY FORBIDDEN as it's an absolute abuse of the song or tune. With someone like you or me inserting the tune into our video, with due credits, like "Mason Williams] CLASSICAL GAS(M. Williams) 1968 Warner Music" for instance, appearing as text on screen as the tune starts, and we acknowledge the tune in our description panel. It is, after all, common courtesy to recognise the artists, composers and their works.
@@neilforbes416 Yeah, we are basically in agreement, some savvy composers make good use of RU-vid's Content Creator Tools to offer their music for free in return for a credit, a great way for someone breaking into the business to get their name out there. There are a few well know artists who offer their music for free because they got annoyed with other people and music houses making money from their music without passing any on to the original artists.
