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Auckland's a lovely hilly city, with a surprising amount of greenery and interesting native birds (here, a swamphen = pukeko in Maori):
A few cute critters at the zoo (respectively, red panda, kea parrot, capybaras, spider monkeys):
Rangitoto island (we climbed to the peak):
View of Bay of Islands from our hostel window:
Maori carvings at the Waitangi treaty site:
A Maori wharenui (meeting house) and greeting/challenge by warriors:
Sunset at Paihia:
Curtis and Shoshanna and me and Shoshanna during sea kayaking lunch break, Bay of Islands:
Lush grass and a cliff-side tree:
New Zealand flax with Bay of Islands as the backdrop:
Bay of Islands from the peak of Urupukapuka Island:
Bleak shoreline at Opononi:
Our guide (Charlie) and kauri tree:
Waitomo bird sanctuary (kea and kaka, respectively):
Shoshanna feeding kakariki:
Me and Madame in the tame glow-worm cave (and Moa skeleton):
Glow-worm dangling threads and lights:
Countryside above the "wild" cave we explored and our spelunking group:
Descending into the cave (all photos of this cave courtesy of Waitomo Adventures):
The "claustrophobia test", belly-crawling through a tight passage:
Up to our collective arse in water:
Admiring the glow worms, then a rest break:
Tongariro (the perfect cone) from a distance:
Started the hike in the dark. By around 7AM, it became light enough to see without a flashlight:
At the foot of the Devil's Staircase (a 2-hour continuous climb), then looking back on where we'd come from (way, way down low at the top of the photo):
Tongariro seen from the highest point and the red crater (respectively):
"Proof" that we made it to the high point below Tongariro:
A long descent to Emerald Lake, girded in steam, and looking back whence we came:
Red crater from below, looking back from farther below the crater:
Still a bloody long way to go (to the carpark at the middle left if you follow the line of dark trees that begins at the lake):
Next day, the waterfall near Tongariro National Park Village:
Shoshanna of the moors—and the moors:
Silica Rapids:
"Stairs: why'd it have to be stairs?"
The thermal valley:
Craters of the Moon:
Whakarewarewa village:
Rotorua river and Bay of Plenty:
Shoshanna of Rainbow Mountain:
Countryside surrounding Rainbow Mountain:
Redwoods and gum trees (eucalypts):
The redwood canopy walk:
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