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We start our photo tour just a day after Laura and I touched down in Auckland. We drove (for about...

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Christ Church is the oldest surviving church in New Zealand. The church stands in Russell - also...

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The house in Russell was the first Catholic mission in New Zealand. Monks from France opened...

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'Cause, see, I used to be a journalist, right? "Ink-stained wretch"? No? Forget it.

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At the Waitangi Treaty House Grounds, there is a Maori whare - or meeting house - which includes...

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The extended tongue, characteristic of Maori carvings and Maori performances, is intended not as some...

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The front of the Waitangi meeting house.

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Near our hotel on Waitangi, there is a 4-km. track that runs between the Waitangi Treaty House...

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The falls are relatively small, but horseshoe shaped.

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We spent a night and part of the next day on The Rock. It's a car ferry that's been converted for...

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At nightfall, we dropped anchor and had a chance to fish. I actually caught one fish, a fish that...

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After a night on the Rock, we went snorkeling the next morning, by a rock that formed the base of a...

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On the second day on the Rock, we weighed anchor off the shore of Roberton's Island and...

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I just really wondered who lived there. It looked very nice.

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Our passage for the previous night, at anchor while we hiked to the top of the island.

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Jasper & J.J., Rock crew members, offered passengers the chance to try some of the morning catch:...

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Laura tries sea urchin "roe."

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