new Zeland
31.3.2012 - Auckland skyline (From the ferry to Devonport)
Devonport (A suburb of Auckland)
Back to Auckland Ferry Terminal from Devonport
Sky Tower
Auckland War Memorial Museum
1.4.2012 - Mauri wood carved Meeting House (Hotunui), Auckland War Memorial Museum
Meeting Maori culture
Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic and Underwater World
Auckland Town Hall
Dinner at seafood restaurant in Ponsonby, Auckland
2.4.2012 - Auckland view from Mount Eden (volcano)
Tirau - Corrugated iron sculpture in a service station...(On our way to Rotorua)
The Redwoods Whakarewarewa Forest, Rotorua
The Blue & Green Lakes
Mitai Maori Village "cultural experience"
Tuatara -Endemic reptiles to New Zealand
3.4.2012 - Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland
Geothermal area
The Champaign Pool (Water temperature 100 degrees Celsius!)
More geothermal park view
The Devil’s Bath
Lady Knox Geyser
Mud pools
Waimangu Volcanic Valley
Southern Lake Crater
Frying Pan Lake & cliffs of Cathedral Rocks
Bird's Nest Spring
Warbrick Terrace
New Zealand ferns
Rotorua Museum
The Government Gardens
4.4.2012 - Ōhinemutu Māori Village, Traditional Maori Meeting House, Rotorua
Hot fumes from geothermal activity are coming out throughout the village
Traditional Maori boat in Lake Rotorua
Kauae Maori military cemetery
Driving from Rotorua to Wellington
A partial view of Tongariro National Park
A stopover in Taihape and it's iconic giant gumboot sculpture
The Rangitikei River Gorge
The town of Bulls
Dinner with Natalie, Stephanie's niece, at the Museum Hotel restaurant, Wellington (Natalie is a make-up artist in the " Hobbit" films)
5.4.2021 - Breakfast at the hotel. Behind, is Billy Connelly having breakfast (played in "The Hobbit")
Te Ngakau Civic Square
The view of Wellington from Wellington Cable Car Kelborn Terminal
Wellington Botanic Gardens
Bolton Street Memory Park Cemetery
"Beehive": The Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Building
Wellington Waterfront
Various art works in the Museum Hotel lobby
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The biggest octopus on dispaly in the world
Our Museum hotel as seen from the Te Papa Museum
6.4.2012 - Embarking the ferry Kaitaki on our way to NZ South Island
Crossing the Cook Strait & Marlborough Sounds
Arriving at Picton (We disembarked & repicked a rental car)
Picton
The Queen Charlotte Drive
Havelock
Nelson
7.4.2012 - Nelson Saturday Market
WOW Museum (World Of WearableArt) & Classic Car exhibition, Nelson
Nelson to Murchison
Buller Gorge & Buller River
Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes
Driving about 30km at night to "Brakers" (B&B near Greymouth)
8.4.2012 - At the "Brakers" B&B and its nearby beach
With the "Brakers" owner
The road to Hokitika
Hokitika
The way to Hokitika Gorge
Hokitika Gorge
Goldfields Information & Heritage Centre, Ross
On the way to Franz Joseph
9.4.2012 - Franz Joseph, the view from our hotel room
Taking off from Franz Joseph Heliport and snow landing on Franz Joseph Glacier by helicopter
Steph & two life size Moas (now extinct flightless bird endemic to New Zealand)
Lake Matheson Walk
On the way to Ross Glacier
Ross Glacier
West Coast Wildlife Centre, Franz Joseph
10.4.2012 - Leaving Franz Joseph under very heavy rain
Road No. 6
Bruce Bay
Knights Point Lookout
Miniature horses farm (near Haast Beach)
View towards Mount Aspiring National Park
The confluence of Haast & Landsborough Rivers
Dear husbandry
Lake Wanaka
Lake Hawea
Autumn colours
Stuart Landsborough Puzzling World, Wanaka
Merino sheep
Cardrona Hotel (On Crown Range Road)
Scenic views at the Crown Range Summit Lookout & A view of Queenstown
Queenstown at night
11.4.2012 - Queenstown centre, statue of William Gilbert Rees on Queenstown lakeside (First European settler in Otago)
Queenstown Skyline cable car on the mountain top from Queenstown Gardens
Queenstown Gardens
Going up on Skyline Gondola Complex
Views of Queenstown & Lake Wakatipu from the top
Coming down
Arrowtown
Arrowtown Chinese Settlement (During the Otego Gold Rush in the 1860's-1880's)
Frankton ("The Remarkables" mountain range in the background)
Dinner in our Kawarau Hotel room (Hilton) with food bought at the nearby Frankton shopping centre
12.4.2012 - Kawarau Village (Queenstown in the background)
On the Southern Scenic Route (Queenstown to Te Anau)
Driving along Lake Wakatipu
Picnic at Te Anau Tourist Information Office grounds
Te Anau views
Te Anau Glowworm Caves
13.04.2012 - The road to Milford Sound
Coming out of the Homer Tunnel
Mitre Peak, Milford Sound
Our cruise boat
Our cruise boat
The Chasm Walk (Cleddau River)
Homer Tunnel exit towards Te Anau
Lake Marian Track
Mirror Lakes - notice the reflection of a face in the water
Back to Lake Te Anau
14.4.2012 - On the Southern Scrnic Road to Invercargill
Lake Manapouri
The Southern Scenic Road contd
The Southern Scenic Road contd
Surfing sculpture, Colac Bay
Invercargill
Curio Bay - Fossilized trees 170 million years old
And very rare yellow-eyed penguins
Porpoise Bay
15.4.2012 - Dunedin
City sightseeing
Dunedin Railway Station
The Octagon - An eight-sided plaza in Dunedin city centre with a Robert Burns statue (A Scottish poet and lyricist)
Driving to the Otago Peninsula
Huge sea kelp
Taiaroa Head Lighthouse
The Royal Albatros Centre and an
An albatross is feeding her chic
16.4.2012 - Otego Peninsula 2nd visit
"Natures Wonders" Otago Peninsula headland tour
Fur seals
Yellow-eyed penguins
Penguin observation post
Larnach Castle
Sandfly Bay
Otakou marae (one of the places where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840)
Penguin Place (Private reserve & tours)
17.4.2012
Dunedin sights
Signal Hill (Overlooking Dunedin), Dunedin
Baldwin Street, Dunedin - the world's steepest street
Homeward flight from Dunedin AP