Blue Pools on a green day, in Mount Aspiring National Park, Southern Alps, near Makarora, Otago region, South Island of New Zealand. Blue Pools Track is an easy short walk through mature beech and podocarp forest to a swing bridge over the glacier-fed Blue River, whose water color depends upon flood & gravel cycles. From Blue Pools parking lot, Young River Mouth can be reached after 7 km on the Gillespie Pass Track (which can be shortened from Makarora Village via jetboat or Makarora River crossing). UNESCO lists Mount Aspiring as part of Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand World Heritage Area. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
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