Went to New Zealand back in October 2009 for a holiday. Saw my sister and celebrated my Nana's 80th Birthday. First time all the cousins had been together since the early 90's.
Some of my favourite pictures...
Stopped and spent the day with a friend in Los Angeles on the way to NZ
"Swiss Plate" on Venice Beach
A Santa Monica Pier denizen
Spent a couple of days in Auckland (biggest city and where the plane lands in NZ). Then rented a car and drove to Northland all the way to Cape Reinga, the northern cape
View of Auckland from Rangitoto Island
Two of my favourite things in the world, fish and chips and L&P (an NZ soft drink)
View along northern coast near Cape Reinga
Sign at the cape
Took a bus tour on 90 mile beach
Car that never made it off 90 mile beach
Massive Kauri tree unique to the northern part of New Zealand
After the North, flew down to Christchurch and then drove to Invercargill where my Sister and rest of my family lives.
Bluff, way in the south, basically the opposite end of the country to Cape Reinga
NZ was prepared to defend itself against feared Japanese invasion
Kea in the Queen's Park Aviary in Invercargill
Petrified wood near Curio Bay
Curio Bay
All the cousins with Nana on her 80th Birthday
View up a tree at Queenstown Botanical Garden
Summer luge at Queenstown not nearly as good as Rodelbahn in Schweiz
View of Queenstown from the summer luge
Milford Sound, not actually a sound. A sound is made by moving liquid water. Milford Sound is actually a fjord, which is carved by a glacier. When they named Milford Sound there was not yet a word in the English language for a fjord, eventually the Norwegian word, fjord, was incorporated into English.
Took a boat trip out into the sound, this dolphin surfed in front of the hull for a short time.
Some seals sunning themselfs
Wild Keas are very mischievous and will grab anything shiny they can possibly get
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