Transient

              We found out the hard way there is a downside to meeting such amazing people.                                                   Difficult when friends leave Penang for the next adventure.

                    One of us cried for days and Glynis was a little bit sad as well

New Zealand Beach

New Zealand must choose between the old flag or a new design.  Now life guards are confusing us with red and yellow flags.

Putting the sand back neatly where they found it. Very responsible.

Practise on the smaller surf

Doing it.

Going somewhere quiet

Find a place to pitch a towel.

Surf casting

Houston

We have lift off

New Zealand trip

 Mixture of photos taken in New Zealand

Carvings on Lake Taupo that you needed a boat to see. The cynical part of me thinks why would you put a carving here. So you have to get a boat to see.

Random unicorn

Never saw a bull

Don't you just hate it when you step on something nasty and it gets stuck between your toes.

 Picture perfect in the Waitakeres

Waited five minutes. Felt no better

Brought Seren a kite. Don't think she got a turn

Spent the night in a couple of boxes. Not the most comfortable accommodation but beautiful scenery

 Lake Taupo

Fairly typical of the people you find in Wellington.


 Weta workshops in Wellington

http://wetaworkshop.com/

                                  This creature is real...the one above probably not

                                                         Bird show...caught on film

                                                            One of these fish is a duck

                                                               Who you calling a duck

 Kea a native parrot. Such soulful sound when it was screeching. Think it should go free.

Hot pools. Heated from the earth








      Watched the cultural show but realised we had not brought tickets. They had spears, we left.

Creeps times two