View of Gisborne town, the first place captain Cooke landed when he discovered New Zealand. The towns other claim to fame is that it is the first place to see the New Year in.
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- Wellington
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- Took a cable car ride to view the bay.
- Found the Rowing club but still can't find scullin...
- Houses nestling in the hills around Wellington.
- Travelling towards Wellington.
- Hawkes Bay and wine growing region
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- The nets at the bottom of the vines are to protect...
- Headquarters of Montana wine production.
- All the grapes for red wine is stored in these 'cu...
- Fermenting the white wine in stainless towers.
- Library, but not as we know it. Some of these bott...
- Roll out the barrels. Barrels of merlot ready for ...
- Napier
- There were bands and groups playing, mainly Jazz, ...
- Napier is full of Art Deco touches.
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- A selection of the ladies dressed up for the occas...
- Nearly all the local people dressed up in authenti...
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- More vintage cars than we have ever seen in one place
- Gisborne- first to see the light.
- Off to the pub.
- It's a long way home.
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- Hicks bay, we found it at last. The most easterly ...
- Sports day in New Zealand, surfing races.
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- Travelling on from Rotorua, north to the coast, th...
- Rotorua and Wai-O-tapu
- This is called Champagne lake, it looks green beca...
- This is called Artist palette, a large pool of dif...
- Steaming fumeroles of mud.
- Lady Knox geyser erupts every morning.
- Devil's ink pot
- Everywhere you walk in Rotorua town there are boil...
- Rotorua has a large Maori influence. This is a wel...
- Rotorua lake, full of black swans and scaups.
- We even spotted some pukekos breeding in the park....
- Rotorua was very English in places. picture the sc...
- Interesting toilet block
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- Driving round to the Bay of Plenty, a main kiwi gr...
- A working gold mine
- Typical New Zealand scene. We've seen more cows th...
- They told me I could walk to the island, they didn...
- Spent a few days in Whangata, a fishing town.
- Frienzed activity as people dig to find their own ...
- Hot water beach, so called because if you dig in c...
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- There are miles of deserted beaches on the Coroman...
- Dave got his own back again for the white water ra...
- This is Dave's favourite breed of cattle ( Herefor...
- Sunset over the bay.
- This is the view from the window of the beach cabi...
- Took thousands of photos, too many to show.
- Driving around the Coromandel peninsula. Fantastic...
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- Rapidly approaching the first waterfall
- Started off correctly.
- Backwards down the first waterfall, not quite the ...
- Second waterfall negotiated, still on board.
- The big one! No backing out.
- Over the edge
- Here we go......
- Going........
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- Gone!
- Coming up
- We made it.
- Only lost one!
- Can't believe we came down there.
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- Respect!
- Auckland city
- Indulged in our passion looking around Aucklands g...
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- Auckland has many floral gardens to sit and soak u...
- Auckland has more cake shops per head of popultion...
- Another view of the bay, superb.
- Tramping (New Zealand way of saying rambling) thro...
- View of Auckland city from the top of Rangitoto is...
- Took a trip across Auckland bay to Rangitoto volca...
- Auckland city skyline
- Traveling again! Next stop New Zealand. I must be ...
- Fiji
- In Fiji girls wear a flower in their right ear if ...
- Fiji is a really beautiful island and for all the ...
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- We were told that Fiji has two seasons, " the rain...
- The children were pleased though, as their school ...
- All the rivers were full of debris.
- Many of the bridges were washed away.
- After booking our flight to Fiji, the island was ...
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