Crossing the Cooke Strait to the South Island.
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Getting ready for action
Dave and Dolly
Getting ready for action
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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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1 comment:
Just to let you know the year 5's came up with a Turkey or Pigeon for the Norfolk bird.
I have just handed in my last assignment for my NVQ 3 so I should have some free time until I start my next course ! I hope you are both well take care JO x
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