New Zealand Part 1

A small selection of photos from our recent trip to New Zealand...

 Robyn and Tim must live on the steepest street in Auckland.

The Auckland Botanical Garden was full of sculptures and flowers--quite a change from the winter cold we left in North Carolina.

 A New Zealand wood pigeon in the botanical garden.

The Auckland Art Museum.

Blown glass spheres and an arch of glass rods in the sculpture garden at Lava Glass.

Robyn, Pop and Tim admiring the small blown glass flowers at Lava Glass.

 Large blown glass flowers at Lava Glass.

Rhiannon and Robyn at Huka Honey.

At Lake Taupo, we went on a sailboat excursion.  Rhiannon photographed Robyn and Tim on the prow of the boat.

Lake Taupo and shoreline from the boat.

Maori rock carvings on Lake Taupo.

A black swan.

A tree fern overhead at Sanctuary Mountain in Maungatautari.

A tree fern crozier.

 Robyn and Rhiannon at Maungatautari.

The Kakas very obligingly allowed us to photograph them in the clearing at Maungatautari.