I’ve been in the Hawkes Bay area about 3 or 4 times since I live in New Zealand. – And I’ve never made it to Cape Kidnappers yet. :( At first I didn’t know that you could only walk to the cape at low tide. Then low tide was always at the wrong time of [...]
We went to Castlepoint last night and I spent the evening and early morning taking pictures :) Too bad though, that they switch off the light of the lighthouse at 7am!
Here are some highlights, but I put up more photos at my web gallery: Coromandel/Christmas South Island West coast – from Nelson to Franz Josef Wanaka & Queenstown Milford Sounds East coast – from Dunedin to Christchurch Marlborough
Babs ordered some macro filters to put in-front of a 52mm lens. I used them with my Canon EF 70-300mm. Here are some of the results. Arn’t those neat? :)
Finally got through all my pictures. Here are some pictures of my dives. All the other pictures are in this post: Rarotonga :: Cook Islands
Cook Islands (or rather Rarotonga) is about 4.5 hours by plane from Auckland. Air New Zealand and Pacific Blue sometimes have specials and sell tickets for as low as NZ$99 – one way.
Tongariro National Park has to offer quite a few interesting hikes (or tramps as they say in New Zealand) and you get spectacular views of the surrounding area – at least on a good day. ;)
Kerosene Creek is a small river with little waterfalls and a temperature of about 40 degrees. It is located between Rotorua and Taupo near SH1 south of the turnoff of SH38 and north of Wai-O-Tapu. It’s pretty amazing to sit or slowly swim in the hot water, relaxing and feeling the pain of hiking all [...]
Waiotapu is one of the many volcanic parks between Rotorora and Tapu. You have mud pools, hot springs, sulfor lakes, carbon terraces and volcanic vents all around. There’s also one geyser which errupts everyday punctually at 10:15am – with the help of a little organic soap… Kind of ridiculous…
…doesn’t really need words, does it? :-)
