Auckland
4 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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, pulledЧитать далее
Mount Wellington
7 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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 theЧитать далее
Transportation Museum
10 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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 notЧитать далее
Auckland Parks
11 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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 growЧитать далее
ПутешественникThe sixth picture reminds me that I should visit the Zilker Japanese Gardens more often.
Auckland
11 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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 youЧитать далее
Sea Life Aquarium
11 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Walked to the Sea Life Aquarium which had a great Penguin encloser.
ПутешественникNow that you finally accomplished your task to FindPenguins, is your journey over?
Waitomo Caves Glow Worms
13 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 thenЧитать далее
Hobbiton Movie Set
14 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 feetЧитать далее
Hobbiton Movie Set
14 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 senseЧитать далее
Hobbiton Movie Set
14 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
The tour ended at the Green Dragon Inn which included one free drink. So well done.
Most of New Zealand North Island
15 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
From what I have seen, most of the North Island of New Zealand is this farm county look.
Rotorua
15 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 greatЧитать далее
Redwoods in Rotorua
20 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 PineЧитать далее
Rotorua
21 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Mount Eden
30 января 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Climbed up another extinct volcano in Auckland. The last picture was taken from my hotel widow.
Rangitoto Island
2 февраля 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
Tauranga
4 февраля 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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 memberЧитать далее
Napier
5 февраля 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Napier had a really nice botanical garden and I pretty much had the whole place to myself.
Picton
6 февраля 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Most of the ports seem to have large stacks of timber ready to load onto bulk carriers.
Christchurch
8 февраля 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 vehicleЧитать далее
Milford Sound
10 февраля 2025 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Napier
18 февраля, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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 engineЧитать далее
ПутешественникThey used Gas Coal. Coal gas is a flammable mixture of gases—primarily hydrogen ( ), methane ( ), and carbon monoxide ( )—produced by heating bituminous coal in the absence of air, a process known as destructive distillation.
Wellington
21 февраля, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Only had one day here and I am planning on spending more time in Wellington later this month.
Ferry From North to South New Zealand
22 февраля, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
It was one of the best ferry rides I have been on.
ПутешественникWhat was so great about it? Did they serve you Tostitos Salsa Con Queso Dip and Tostitos Scoops! Tortilla Chips?
Punakaiki
25 февраля, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 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.
ПутешественникWow! Looks like there would be some amazing rock climbing there.
ПутешественникUh…could you please tell us more about the incident with the guy with the knife?
ПутешественникI 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.