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4. tammikuuta 2025
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Päivä 1
lauantai 4. tammikuuta 2025 klo 10.31
☀️ 18 °C
Korkeus: 8 m
Uusi Seelanti MOUNT WELLINGTON -36.907613, 174.84506136°54’27” S 174°50’42” E
Auckland
4. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
My initial impressions of New Zealand have been good. For example, I stayed at a hotel near the airport and then walked two miles to the train station with my suitcase. Three different people, pulled over, got out of their car and asked me if I was ok or needed help. I said I was ok and on my way to the train station and they offered to give me a ride. In Brazil I walked three block with my suitcase and some guy pulls a knife out on me. Also price seem cheaper then I was expecting. The first picture is an extinct volcano I walked by and the last three pictures are of the hotel I am staying at which is in Auckland and on a bay, for 70 to 80 dollars a night. In Austin a lesser hotel would cost twice as much.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaUh…could you please tell us more about the incident with the guy with the knife?
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MatkaajaI was staying at a hotel close to the cruise port. The hotel reviews are good but people say the neighborhood is unsafe in Sao Paulo. I had a ten minute walk from the bus terminal to the hotel along a busy roadway at 4:30 in the afternoon and some guy pulls a knife out to try and get some money from me. I was very surprised and the guy seemed even more surprised that I did not flinch when he pulled the knife out and he quickly hide the knife. So yeah, I am not recommending visiting Sao Paulo.
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Päivä 4
tiistai 7. tammikuuta 2025 klo 13.08
☀️ 23 °C
Korkeus: 91 m
Uusi Seelanti Mount Wellington -36.891007, 174.84672736°53’28” S 174°50’48” E
Mount Wellington
7. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
I hiked up an extinct volcano today. This part of New Zealand has a lot of extinct volcanos. The weather has been great here with a high of 75 and a low of 60. In the last picture you can see both the west and east coast of New Zealand and the water is not connected. I think it is the thinnest strip of land between both sides of New Zealand.Lue lisää
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Päivä 7
perjantai 10. tammikuuta 2025 klo 13.15
☀️ 23 °C
Korkeus: 17 m
Uusi Seelanti Western Springs -36.867795, 174.72615736°52’4” S 174°43’34” E
Transportation Museum
10. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Went to the Transportation Museum today.
1. This is a high voltage AC to DC convertor used to power the cable cars at the time. I think the whole thing would glow blue at full power. It is not currently be used.
2. An explanation of the AC to DC convertor.
3. Steam engine.
4. World War II bomber flow by New Zealand pilots who volunteered to fight in the war.
5. This is a sea plan used to fly passages to and from New Zealand before there where enough airports between England and New Zealand.
6. A good picture showing all the different planes in the museum.
7. A sail boat used by the Polynesia.Lue lisää
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Päivä 8
lauantai 11. tammikuuta 2025 klo 11.50
☀️ 23 °C
Korkeus: 65 m
Uusi Seelanti Grafton -36.85881, 174.77510636°51’32” S 174°46’30” E
Auckland Parks
11. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Auckland has several great parks. The first two pictures are from a rose garden that is almost as good as the one in Portland. The third picture is very popular tree where most of the branches grow horizontal. It was really nice walking around in the parks.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaThe sixth picture reminds me that I should visit the Zilker Japanese Gardens more often.
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Päivä 8
lauantai 11. tammikuuta 2025 klo 11.56
☀️ 23 °C
Korkeus: 22 m
Uusi Seelanti Mechanics Bay -36.850297, 174.78647936°51’1” S 174°47’11” E
Auckland
11. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The rest of these photos are ones I took when walking around Auckland. The first picture is the Sky Tower which marks the location of the casino. You can rappel from the Sky Tower for a fee but you would have to pay me to do that. There are a ton of boat in the docks and very few boats actually being used. The last picture shows an indoor boat garage for even more boats that are not being used. I saw at least two different boat garages.Lue lisää
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Päivä 8
lauantai 11. tammikuuta 2025 klo 12.09
☀️ 22 °C
Korkeus: 9 m
Uusi Seelanti Takaparawha Point -36.846308, 174.81693536°50’47” S 174°49’1” E
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Sea Life Aquarium
11. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Walked to the Sea Life Aquarium which had a great Penguin encloser.
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Matkaaja He looks like a perfectly toasted marshmallow with wings.
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MatkaajaNow that you finally accomplished your task to FindPenguins, is your journey over?
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MatkaajaI am sure there are more Penguins that need to be found.
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Päivä 10
maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2025 klo 22.04
☁️ 15 °C
Korkeus: 74 m
Uusi Seelanti Kapongaru -38.260811, 175.1100938°15’39” S 175°6’36” E
Waitomo Caves Glow Worms
13. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
There an insect larva that hangs from the ceiling of caves. Its tail glows and it has these spider web like filaments hanging below it. Insects are attracted to the light from the glowing tail then get caught in the filaments and eaten.Lue lisää
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Päivä 11
tiistai 14. tammikuuta 2025 klo 14.38
☁️ 25 °C
Korkeus: 177 m
Uusi Seelanti Mangapapa Stream -37.859172, 175.67804937°51’33” S 175°40’41” E
Hobbiton Movie Set
14. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Really well done Hobbiton tour. When they made the Hobbit movie they built this set to last and to turn it into a tourist attraction.
1 Hey its me!
2 Bilbo's home, it only goes in about ten feet inside. They built the inside on a movie set.
3 The tree over Bilbo's home which is made of metal
The rest of the pictures are from around the movie set. The tour explained how the movie was filmed. Some of the doors are human size and some are hobbit sized. So when they where filming hobbits they put the actors in from the human size doors. When they where filming humans they would put the actors in front of hobbit size doors.Lue lisää
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Päivä 11
tiistai 14. tammikuuta 2025 klo 15.38
☁️ 25 °C
Korkeus: 163 m
Uusi Seelanti Mangapapa Stream -37.857593, 175.67982337°51’27” S 175°40’47” E
Hobbiton Movie Set
14. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
They built a hobbit home, and sized everything to scale, that you get to walk thru. In the picture with the fire place, some kid jumped into my picture in front of the doorway, so you can get a sense of scale. It was impressive to see. They said that for the parts of the movie inside Bilbo's home, they had two identical movie sets except one was hobbit size and one was human size. So they would film Bilbo in the human size set and everyone else in the hobbit size set.Lue lisää
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The set design was amazing. [Mark]
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Päivä 11
tiistai 14. tammikuuta 2025 klo 15.58
☁️ 25 °C
Korkeus: 134 m
Uusi Seelanti Mangapapa Stream -37.859472, 175.68007537°51’34” S 175°40’48” E
Hobbiton Movie Set
14. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
The tour ended at the Green Dragon Inn which included one free drink. So well done.
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I have to get a sign like that for my bar! [Mark]
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Päivä 12
keskiviikko 15. tammikuuta 2025 klo 12.27
☁️ 23 °C
Korkeus: 52 m
Uusi Seelanti Hangatiki -38.253021, 175.15835238°15’11” S 175°9’30” E
Most of New Zealand North Island
15. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
From what I have seen, most of the North Island of New Zealand is this farm county look.
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Päivä 12
keskiviikko 15. tammikuuta 2025 klo 13.51
☁️ 22 °C
Korkeus: 269 m
Uusi Seelanti Rocky Point -38.141321, 176.26233938°8’29” S 176°15’44” E
Rotorua
15. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
I headed down to Rotorua and picked a hotel on the lake, which I thought would be nice. I noticed there was a point of interest close to the hotel called "Sulfur Point" and thought it would be great to walk to it. When I arrived there was a very strong odor of Sulfur in the air and the lake did not look so great. The area has several hot water springs and this one has a lot of sulfur in the spring water.Lue lisää
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Päivä 17
maanantai 20. tammikuuta 2025 klo 13.25
☁️ 21 °C
Korkeus: 297 m
Uusi Seelanti New Geyser -38.157024, 176.27308138°9’25” S 176°16’23” E
Redwoods in Rotorua
20. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Around 1901 New Zealand cleared an area of native trees and planted trees from all over the world to see what trees would grow best in New Zealand for lumber production. Apparently the California Pine won, the guild said it takes 100 years before they harvest the California Pine in California but takes only 25 years in New Zealand. They also planted California Redwood trees and after World War II they dedicated the Redwood Trees they planted to soldiers that died in the war and made the area a national park. I was shocked to see a Redwood Tree forest in New Zealand that was just like the ones in California just a lot smaller area.

1 Redwood trees.
2 On the right are Redwood Trees and the on the left are native trees.
3 What the native forest looks like, the trees are not very straight.
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Päivä 18
tiistai 21. tammikuuta 2025 klo 11.09
☁️ 17 °C
Korkeus: 273 m
Uusi Seelanti Kuirau Park -38.129914, 176.24389138°7’48” S 176°14’38” E
Rotorua
21. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
I changed hotels to a different part of the lake which was much better as shown in the first picture. The next two pictures are of a different hot spring.
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Päivä 27
torstai 30. tammikuuta 2025 klo 11.26
⛅ 23 °C
Korkeus: 162 m
Uusi Seelanti Mount Eden Domain -36.876391, 174.76463736°52’35” S 174°45’53” E
Mount Eden
30. tammikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Climbed up another extinct volcano in Auckland. The last picture was taken from my hotel widow.
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Päivä 30
sunnuntai 2. helmikuuta 2025 klo 12.03
⛅ 24 °C
Korkeus: 147 m
Uusi Seelanti Rangitoto Island -36.786979, 174.85502936°47’13” S 174°51’18” E
Rangitoto Island
2. helmikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
This is an extinct volcano but is the most recent volcano in Auckland to have an eruption, which was about 600 years ago. The hiking path up to the top was on top of the last lava flow from the volcano and there was a lava tunnel you could walk thru.Lue lisää
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Päivä 32
tiistai 4. helmikuuta 2025 klo 15.36
☀️ 24 °C
Korkeus: 216 m
Uusi Seelanti Mount Maunganui -37.630408, 176.17203437°37’49” S 176°10’19” E
Tauranga
4. helmikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
The cruise ship boarding was delayed for two hours for some unknow reason. After I finished checking in and they gave me by room key and was about one minute from boarding the ship, a staff member goes by the way here is a letter from the captain. The letter stated that the previous cruise had an out break of passengers coming down with a stomach bug and I could cancel my cruise for a full refund if I wanted to. Talk about waiting until the last minute to tell me about it. I talked to one of the staff members and he felt that about ten percent of the passengers came down with the stomach bug. On this cruise I have never seen such large efforts to keep passengers from getting sick. At the buffet a staff member has to service you and if you want ketchup, you have to have a staff member squeeze it out of a bottle onto you plate.Lue lisää
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Päivä 33
keskiviikko 5. helmikuuta 2025 klo 15.28
☁️ 21 °C
Korkeus: 13 m
Uusi Seelanti Ahuriri Bluff -39.491133, 176.91294839°29’28” S 176°54’47” E
Napier
5. helmikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Napier had a really nice botanical garden and I pretty much had the whole place to myself.
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Päivä 34
torstai 6. helmikuuta 2025 klo 8.37
⛅ 22 °C
Korkeus: 29 m
Uusi Seelanti Picton Ferry Port -41.292561, 173.99894241°17’33” S 173°59’56” E
Picton
6. helmikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Most of the ports seem to have large stacks of timber ready to load onto bulk carriers.
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Päivä 36
lauantai 8. helmikuuta 2025 klo 11.00
☁️ 19 °C
Korkeus: 19 m
Uusi Seelanti Wigram -43.543808, 172.56170743°32’38” S 172°33’42” E
Christchurch
8. helmikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Went on a tour of the International Antarctic Centre. Across the street is the USA Antarctic building, soon to be cut by Trump I am sure. They took us on a off road ride in the all terrain vehicle shown in the second picture. Near by was the New Zealand air force museum. It was all interesting stuff.Lue lisää
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Päivä 38
maanantai 10. helmikuuta 2025 klo 9.47
☁️ 13 °C
Korkeus: 981 m
Uusi Seelanti Mount Philipps -44.661326, 167.87802644°39’41” S 167°52’41” E
Milford Sound
10. helmikuuta, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
One of the best sights I saw in New Zealand and you can drive here. At the top of the mountain in one of the pictures, if you zoom way in, you can see Gandalf Bilbo waving down at the cruise ship.
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