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Rural NZ, in a town where a company makes sculpture from corrugated metal.
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Another town had a DC-3 made into a McDonalds.
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Unusual flowers. It may not be native NZ.
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Same flower opened up.
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We were in Taupo a center for geothermal energy - but watching the steam rise near the hotel was fascinating.
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This is a stream on the property.
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I suspect you could boil an egg here.
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A few miles the other direction was a river flowing massive amounts of water - and generating even more electricity.
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The warm, moist climate was ideal for giant ferns.
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Tour bus in Auckland
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Auckland harbor
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Karen and Auckland Harbor
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This neat building was a ferry building
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Clock tower at the University of Auckland
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Inside the building
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Looks like New Orleans
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Doorway on the same house
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It would not be NZ without "Hobbit Tours"
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Inside the museum, in the old gallery, beside the new, modern one.
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The old gallery
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The new gallery
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Art museum in Albert Park, exhibit
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View to an outside exhibit
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Exit through the gift shop...apologies to Banksy
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Waiting in the airport - headed to Sydney
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And I just had to try the chairs - really makes it quiet
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Christmas ornament
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Chinese house in Sydney
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Now we're in Sydney, Darling Wharf
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