Auckland visit

I spent last weekend in Auckland visiting friends, airports and a couple of other places.

Here are a couple of scenic type photos. The first three are Pukekos... scavenging around Auckland International Airport and desperately trying to avoid Maria, her gun and her desire to rid the world of these lovely birds :-)

Following this are three pictures from Mt Wellington - the crater [look closely, there are at least 10 fat and happy looking bunnies in there if you're hungry!!!], a tree, then an "iconic" picture of Auckland looking across to Rangitoto Island.

Enjoy!

Interislander Ferry

I was sitting in the back of a plane earlier today and got this picture of an Interislander ferry coming in to Wellington.

RNZN visits Wellington

As part of the scenic tour, the Navy had an open day on two of the inshore patrol vessels [HMNZS Pukaki and HMNZS Taupo] and a roll on, roll off transport [HMNZS Canterbury].

Finding out that we knew one of the HMNZS Taupo crew, we headed off and had a look around [thanks Nick!]. We didn't gte on to the HMNZS Canterbury.

Here are the photos, top to bottom:

HMNZS Canterbury [2 pictures]

HMNZS Pukaki [nearest] and HMNZS Taupo [2 photos]

Aussie visitor and Wellington sightseeing

Yesterday I got to pick up up an aussie visitor off a flight, and today we went sightseeing. This included Eastbourne; a place I had not visited despite being in Wellington for over 4.5 years now. As you can see, the weather improved a lot during the day!

Pictures are:

Emma the visitor...

The beach at Eastbourne

Marina at the international sea port

Looking across the harbour to the Hutt Valley

Te Papa

Enjoy!

Robin Mark - "Here is Love"

Peace... now this would be nice

Another picture of the moon

More playing around with the camera this evening, with another picture of the moon. Again, a fast shutter speed and hand held [although with image stabilisation on] has resulted in a decent image.

As always, click on the image for a larger version.

Monkey Business!

This is a test of your powers of perception, based on an old video trick. Enjoy!

Scenery in Waikanae

I have just arrived back in Wellington after a few days up in Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast, at a youth camp held at El Rancho. While there I managed to snap a few photos of some of the local scenery

These were all taken within the El Rancho complex itself. It really is a nice place [and having been there a few years ago in September, it's not always quite so cold! :-)].

I particularly like the final picture where the trees are partially silhouetted against the sky one evening as the sun retreated below the horizon.

Enjoy!

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