Northland journey part 1
- 1. My Northland Journey Part 1 (June 7 – 11, 2008) Katikati -> Waihi -> White Island -> East Cape
- 2. Go! Go! Travel After kiwi seasonal end, 4 of us (Jane, Vicky, and us) have a journey together. You all must can’t imagine how put 4 people luggage and bags in one car somemore have to reserve 4 seats for that car. Just click to next slide to look photo. We have travel together around 2 weeks. Too many destinations to slide out so I going to show at power point separately.
- 3. Luggage and bags and foods Even we are like the “sandwich” (especially back seat passengers) but we managed to travel for 2 weeks and have fun. Yeah…
- 4. Katikati – June 7, 2008 The only attraction at Katikati:
- 5. Waihi (Goldfield Train) – June 7, 2008 Waihi is goldmine city. 1 of attraction at Waihi, Goldfield Train, NZ15 return way. Is about 20 minutes distance one way. After returned to station, we drove to chase the train in order to snap entire train photo. That day was raining. Crazy…
- 6. Waihi (Goldfield Train) – June 7, 2008 This dog has a good owner!
- 7. Waihi (Goldfield Train) – June 7, 2008 Scene that I look while on train:
- 8. Waihi (Goldfield Train) – June 7, 2008
- 9. Waihi (Karangahake) – June 7, 2008 After the train, we did the walkway at Karangahake. We walk on the railway road and experienced the historical of goldmine. Entire railway road is built across the mountain.
- 10. Waihi (Karangahake) – June 7, 2008
- 11. Waihi (Karangahake) – June 7, 2008
- 12. Waihi (Karangahake) – June 7, 2008
- 13. White Island – June 9, 2008 White Island Is NZ biggest marine active volcano. It was amazing and beautiful. We paid NZ175 and took a cruise to visit white island from Whakatane jetty. 1.5 hours to reach the island.
- 14. White Island – June 9, 2008 Before enter to white island, must ready the helmet and mask. This is to protect we fall down and took too much smoke.
- 15. White Island – June 9, 2008 Everywhere smoke
- 16. White Island – June 9, 2008
- 17. White Island – June 9, 2008
- 18. White Island – June 9, 2008 The only green plant on the island Cool?
- 19. White Island – June 9, 2008 On the way back, we chase a group of hawker whale (killer whale). Around 7 whales jump from the sea. I wish to capture a video because is more real but my camera batteries exhausted. This photo is from Jane camera.
- 20. East Cape – June 11, 2008 NZ is the 1st country to get the sunrise. East cape is most east area at Northland and also the first area to see the sunrise. We climb 700 steps up to the hill to chase the sunrise. As run while climbing, we get sick after that. Luckily we recover fast.
- 21. East Cape – June 11, 2008 East cape lighthouse. Even felt uncomfortable, we still want to jump. Haha..
- 22. East Cost Traffic – June 11, 2008 While on the east cost way (East cape to Gisborne), we so fortunate to meet the traffic. Many sheets are on the road, happened an EAST COST TRAFFIC.
- 23. East Coast Traffic – June 11, 2008
- 24. East Cost Traffic – June 11, 2008 Few well train dogs are chasing the sheep to the road. They are rushing to another place.
- 25. East Coast Traffic – June 11, 2008