3.30.2007
nz day 2: jeremy atop avalanche peak

nz day 3: kayaking okarito lagoon on the west coast

zn day 4: jeremy digs into a mashie top beef pie on the shores of lake wanaka

nz day 5: first day of the kepler track

nz day 7: fish and chips takeaway after completing the kepler

nz day 7: nugget point at sunset in the fog

nz day 8: from florence hill, a local in the catlins

nz day 8: at mcclean falls

nz day 8: jeremy enters the cathedral caves from the beach

nz day 9: a weka investigates our kayak on ulva island

nz day 10: one of several coves from the rakiura track

nz day 11: a yellow-eyed penguin on the otago peninsula

nz day 12: the moeraki boulders

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3.30.2007
paddy’s market

oporto

special sauce

sydney fish market

cold seafood spread at kell’s

restaurant balzac degustation: crawfish and pressed chicken

restaurant balzac degustation: lobster ravioli

restaurant balzac degustation: ocean trout, calamari, and vegetables

restaurant balzac degustation: rabbit lasagne with rabbit tenderloin and offal

restaurant balzac degustation: beef on spinach with marrow

the ultra special complimentary cheese plate that jerad almost died trying to finish

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3.16.2007
perfect brekkie

flying foxes at the botanical gardens – this one special bat was white

opera house from the ferry

furry koala

baby wallaby

echidna

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3.15.2007
dining on the finger wharf

scallop on sunchoke purée with sunchoke chips

crab and corn soufflé

amazing prawns

a slow cooked veal on saffron pasta

ocean trout with shitake mushrooms and baby zucchini

lime and grappa granita over honeydew

chef jerad and kell

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3.13.2007
hanuman’s: soft shell crab

hanuman’s: moreton bay bugs (a sea faring shelled critter) in curry

hanuman’s: barramundi in passion fruit and ginger sauce

hanuman’s: long macchiato

hanuman’s: passion fruit semi freddo

hanuman’s: chocolate and almond flourless gateau

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