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Trip to NZ - pics North Island - South
Island
Free light show in hong Kong harbour
Another pic from hong Kong - the aviary where you can get eally close
to the birds
In the cable car on the way to the Big Buddha
Flowers outside the monastry - we had lovely veggie meal there - see
big buddha in background
Start of walk on the Coromandel peninsula
Castle rock - we saw Tui and bell birds and lots of manuka
Mum hugging a kauri - what can you say!
Walking in the karagahake gorge - quite wild in places
We had to go through a long tunnel completely in the dark but the pay
off was we saw lots of glow worms in the roof.
Waiotapu
thermal wonderland - you just have to do it - very impressive if you
dont mind the H2S fumes. Quite like old chemistry days.
These stilts didn't seem to mind the hot water or the fumes - can you
see the little chicks?
crater lake near rotorua
Beautiful and deserted lake Okataina
Massive tree fern
Close up of Tui - in a zoo!
Mum striding out on the way up Rainbow mountain - so called because of
all the different coloured rock. There were fumeroles all over the
place so you had to keep to the path!!
more boiling water - the world's first low pressure geothermal power
station was built near here
This lot is known as the artists palette - most appropriate
thermal park at Orakei Korako Geyserland
A
view on the way up Mount Tauhara a little peak at the back of Taupo -
You had to fight your way through the bush to get to the top. It was
quite steep being volcanic.
November the 19th - just another day! Setting off on the
Tongariro Crossing.
mount doom! but it was bright and clear if a little windy at this point
the red crater
on the way down to the emerald lakes
Happy lunch at the emerals lakes knowing we were well up to schedule
A patch of snow on the way up to the blue lake
Two shots looking back over the central crater to the wonderful cone of
Mt Ngauruhoe - you can see almost 3/4 of the route
A really good day out - we got back in 6hr20min and had a lovely
birthday dinner at the Italian Restaurant in Turangi.
A
couple of pics from Wellington - The beehive parliament building and
old St Pauls a wonderful old style wooden church that used to be the
Wellington Cathedral until very recently when a new concrete horror was
built.
