So this is the next photo post, showing in pictures what I've been up to in New Zealand!
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For a couple of weeks, I stayed at this place, Wades Landing Lodge, wwoofing.
Very boring work, and every day too, but I got away a couple of times to take some photos at least. |
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There was a guy there, Jack, from England, he made sculptures out of driftwood from the Whanganui river.
Awesome stuff. |
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If you wwoofed for three weeks at the lodge, you got to do one of their canoeing trips for free!
Three days of canoeing on the Whanganui River. Sweet as! |
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I got paired up with this little(tiny) english girl, Ashleigh.
What she lacked in height she made up for in character! In a good way. |
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... Don't know this guy. |
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The legendary Bridge to Nowhere! |
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But check this out, this is The Bridge to the Bridge to Nowhere! |
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A possum! |
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And back at the Lodge... |
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Another one of Jacks sculptures. This one is in National Park. |
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And then I went back to Wellington again! Ashleigh was there too.
We went to the Botanical Gardens! |
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This is how I spent my Birthday, in Taupo! |
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Craters of the Moon, Taupo. |
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On my way hitch hiking from Taupo to Rotorua, I got picked up by these two nice girls, Melanie and Theresa!
I hitched along with them for three days! |
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The Huka Falls, the "biggest tourist attraction in NZ".
It is the place that is visited by the most tourists every year. |
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Another geothermal area, between Taupo and Rotorua, much better than the Craters of the Moon, but I cant remember the name of this one... |
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Classic New Zealand sign. |
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This is the THIRD geothermal area we visited, the Wai-o-Tapo, or something like that.
It's the place with the champagne pool anyway. |
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The Champagne Pool! |
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Oh, and they have a geyser too! |
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A hot spring, in the middle of the forest. Awesome stuff.
I think we sat here for a couple of hours or so! Nice. |
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These birds are walking around everywhere in NZ, but This is the first time I saw so many of them at the same place, in Rotorua! |
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Then I went to Hobbiton! In Matamata.
It was very ironic. |
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What has two thumbs and stars in the new Hobbit movies!? |
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This Guy! |
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In Rotorua, I also met the first swedes in a veery long time, Jonna and Natasha!
We went to do the Tongariro Crossing, but it was closed due to bad weather.
We did some walking in the surrounding tracks instead. |
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I don't know this guy. |
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Then I had to go back to Wellington again, to do more Hobbiting! |
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Mt. Victoria again. |
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This is my working place. But it's secret.
So don't tell anyone. |
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Wellington by night! |
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The Red Rocks seal colony, in Island Bay, suburb to Wellington.
Nice place if you're stuck in Wellington! |
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Did a short visit to Paihia, the Bay of Islands, but the weather was pretty much crap.
I tried to hitch hike up to Cape Reinga, and it resulted in my worst experience in NZ ever!
But it is kind of a long story, it involves hitch hiking in the rain and fanatic christian junkies.
I'll tell you more when I see you. |
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It ended with me getting a new email telling me to go back to Welly for mor Hobbiting, so I went back to Paihia and calmed myself with some night time photography. |
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Well back in Wellington, I met this guy!
He did a one man show all across New Zealand to raise money for a theatre in Christchurch, and Kristi was kind enough to give me a free ticket! |