Looking across Lake Taupo to the volcanoes of Tongariro National Park, where I'm headed when the weather gets better...(I'm at Turangi).
Shells and...a worm burrow fossil?...on Roberton Island, one of 145 islands, in the Bay of Islands.
On Roberton Island, where Captain Cook and Darwin have explored. Crystal clear waters, lagoons, reefs...it's a bit of island paradise.
An old cottage in Paihia in the Bay of Islands. I spent several glorious days in the Bay of Islands...went sailing, snorkeling, beach walking. Saw mangroves, waterfalls, sand dunes...
The northern tip of the North Island is ruggedly beautiful. It's also where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean. On this fine day, the two sea bodies merge so peacefully that it's hard to see where the blending occurs.
Cape Reinga at the northernmost point of New Zealand. The Maori believe that this is the sacred place where souls depart for their homeland to the north. The lighthouse is a little over 10,000km from Los Angeles...
My sandals are going places...like here on a little bay near Cape Reinga.
Crazy Spike, the bus driver. He's knocked off teeth going down sand dunes.
Ever tried going down a sand dune on a boogie board? It's great fun!
Ninety Mile Beach near the top of the North Island.
Beholding the ethereal beauty of an ordinary...moon...over some peaks of the Coromandel.
Hot Water Beach is a spot where geothermal activity is channelled up to heat seawater. Participants dig themselves little pools to soak in around low tide. The hot water is very localized, and as somebody told me, "you could have one cheek in hot water and the other in cold!"
Cathedral Cove on the eastern coast of Coromandel Peninsula.
The Coromandel Peninsula is a place of languid beauty...
I stumbled upon a hot stream near Waitapu, the "thermal wonderland" of central North Island.
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