To Hamilton and Rotorua

Out on Bream Bay on the way to Hamilton	Scenery	Descending down the mountain	Countryside	Morning in Hamilton, NZ
On Victoria Street	Arts Post, Hamilton	The male ostrich comes trotting by	Mr. Long Neck	At close quarters
In your face, buddy!	The female stays behind	Waitomo glowworm caves visitor center	On the road with Mr Archer	Peaks of the Tongariro National forest covered with snow
Maybe Mt. Ruapehu covered by clouds	Mountain Peak in the distance	Verdant valleys	Our next stop	On the trail to the falls
The trail	Mr. Archer identifying the vegetation	A Koru a growing fern and a symbol of NZ	A young Nikau tree - NZ's native palm	Marakopa Falls
Under the tree ferns	Undergrowth	A subtropical forest	Two trees	Fuzz on the tree
Mangapohue Natural Limestone bridge	Stream under the natual bridge	Surface of the underside of the bridge	From under the bridge	The roof
The stream	Stream in the open	Unique tree form	After the ride in the caves	Rabbit to be shorn
Ready for shearing	Shearing a rabbit	Partially shorn rabbit	Waikato river and....	The Arapuni Swing Bridge
The swing bridge	The Waitkato river flows north	Unique vegatation - tree ferns line the gorge	The Arapuni power plant	On the swing bridge
Spray rising from the narrow gorge	More of the unique vegetation