Photographs Taken March 23, 2007, Coming Home from New Zealand

The following photographs were taken during my trip to New Zealand in March 2007. It was an excellent trip and I enjoyed myself immensely.

These photographs are taken from the airplane flying over New Brunswick:

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Photographs Taken March 22, 2007

These are orchids in the lobby of the Chicago hotel we stayed in on our way home from NZ.



The orchids from a different angle.

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Photographs Taken March 21, 2007, in New Zealand

On March 21 we visited Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World and Antarctic Encounter in Auckland and saw penguins and many kinds of underwater life in aquariums. Above you can see a young penguin being cared for by its parent. They both appear to be the same size.




More Penguins




A Photogenic Fish



A Sculpture by Molly MacAlister on the street in Auckland. It is a figure of a Maori in a Kaitaka Cloak.



Kelly Tarlton's Tourist Vehicle (with son Scott)



A Fish That Looks Like a Rock




Fish



Another Fish

Eel

Colourful Representation of the Sea Floor

Turtle

Seahorse

A Flatfish

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Photographs Taken March 20, 2007, in New Zealand

Wall Hanging in Queenstown Airport. I met and talked to the artist who makes her creations from sewn pieces of cloth.



South Island from the Air




Another bird's eye view of South Island



Queenstown Harbour



Decorative Wall in Queenstown



Beautiful Grasses

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Photographs Taken March 19, 2007, in New Zealand

Waterfall on Milford Sound



Wake on Milford Sound



Beautiful Scenery



Seal Sunning on a Rock Taken from the Boat



Probably the Most Famous View of Milford Sound

Ocean Scenery

The Ocean

More Ocean Scenery

Hillside on Milford Sound

Milford Sound

Milford Sound

The Milford Mariner. We spent a night on the boat and had a lovely dinner and breakfast aboard the boat.

Lovely Rugged Foothills

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Photographs Taken March 18, 2007, in New Zealand

Three Waterfalls on the Mountainside at Milford Sound. We were lucky to take our boat trip while it was raining because that is the time when all the waterfalls occur. They were mesmerizing.



Another Waterfall. The boat went under the spray so that the deck was covered with water.

A view of one of the coaches of the Kingston Flyer, a vintage coal-fired steam train that makes charter trips departing from Kingston.

The foothills

Sunlight dappling the hills

Contented Sheep

A Duck with Attitude

A View of Distant Mountains

Another View

Mirror Lakes

Beautiful Scenery

More Hills

Kia. These birds are very friendly and come close to visitors. They are very distructive if they start taking apart the windshield wipers and anything else they can dislodge. They are very playful. Our guide said that he thought they would soon become extinct.

More Lovely Scenery

The Steam Engine

Another Waterfall

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