Rotorua, continued
This time with moving pictures.
A quick escape to Rotorua
Low resolution, granted. But so many greens and blues.
Huka Falls
Washy.
Caves, ghosts, and surfers
Waitomo Caves. Puts Dunedin's glow-worm collection to shame.
Waitomo Hotel, reportedly New Zealand's most haunted hotel. Certainly eery in an Overlook Hotel, twins-in-the-hallway kind of way. Some of the rooms left untouched by staff in the "haunted" end of the building. No ankle-pulling incidents, but we were likely protected by our thick tequila armour.
Raglan. Lots of surfer-types. Lots of trinket shops. The Wanaka Of The North.
Piha
Sunburn, Maori sovereignty, and the best fish and chips in the world.
Summer, Part II
Goat Island Marine Reserve, January 2013.
Far North
90 Mile beach/Cape Reinga/Te Paki Sand Dunes, Dec/Jan 2012.
Warkworth cement factory
Mother Nature takes over an old cement works in Warkworth, north of Auckland.
Dunedin to Auckland, March 2011
Dunedin to Auckland over a haze of two days' driving, and then straight into work. Pros: new faces, new bars, sunlight, feeling perpetually lost and confused and alive again. Cons: heat, sweat, indie kids, motorways, being back down to double digits in my bank account.