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    4 de enero de 2025
    Eric JohnstoneNew ZealandViajero

    Auckland

    4 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 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.Leer más

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    Mount Wellington

    7 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 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.Leer más

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    Transportation Museum

    10 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 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.    Leer más

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    Auckland Parks

    11 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 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.Leer más

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    Auckland

    11 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 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.Leer más

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    Hobbiton Movie Set

    14 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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.    Leer más

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    Hobbiton Movie Set

    14 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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.Leer más

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    Rotorua

    15 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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.Leer más

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    Redwoods in Rotorua

    20 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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.
    4 A hiking trail thru the native forest    Leer más

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    Rotorua

    21 de enero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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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    Rangitoto Island

    2 de febrero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 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.Leer más

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    Tauranga

    4 de febrero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 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.Leer más

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    Christchurch

    8 de febrero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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.Leer más

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    Milford Sound

    10 de febrero de 2025, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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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    Napier

    18 de febrero, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    There is an old technology museum with a working steam traction engine. These where used for heavy hauling or aquicultural work over a 100 years ago. They also have the first power generation engine in Napier that generated 600 HP which is not a lot for an engine of that size but it is over a 100 years old. They also have a working Tesla coil.Leer más

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    Punakaiki

    25 de febrero, Nueva Zelanda ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    This was an interesting spot with some really interesting erosion. The last two pictures show what most of the west coast of south New Zealand looks like. The locals called it a temperate jungle.

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