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Album 1: First Impressions of NZ (23 pictures) | Album 2: Rangitoto Island (27 pictures) | Album 3: A Walk around Auckland's Devonport (22 pictures) | Album 4: Puhoi and a canoe ride (28 pictures) | Album 5: Kawau Island Mansion Tour (54 pictures) | Album 6: Wine, Leigh, a cemetery and a storm (25 pictures) | Album 7: Matakohe and the Kauri Museum (44 pictures) | Album 8: Matakohe to Hongiaka (47 pictures) | Album 9: Kerikeri: History & kaleidoscopes (24 pictures) | Album 10: Bay of Islands (45 pictures) | Album 11: The Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa | Album 12: Antarctica in Auckland (16 pictures) | Album 13: "On the coast of Coromandel ......" (35 pictures) | Album 14: Orchids and Butterflies (20 pictures) | Album 15: Driving Creek Railway (23 pictures) | Album 16: Along the 309 Road (37 pictures) | Album 17: Waihi, Whakatane, not White Island (14 pictures) | Album 18: Rotorua (43 pictures) | Album 19: Plan B — Taupo (27 pictures) | Albums 20: Hamilton Gardens, then home (75 pictures) | Album 21: Paradise Garden Seats (12 pictures)

Album 12: Antarctica in Auckland (16 pictures)

Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World. There are wonderful exhibits replicating Scott's quarters and equipment on his Antarctic Explorations (needing slow exposures, high sensitivity settings, some deliberate underexposure, and a steady hand) an underwater aquarium (the same requirements, plus the need for the fish to stay still, which fish don't, so I have to pretend that's what my photographs are meant to convey), a big tank with enormous stingrays being fed (requiring the photographer to be both above and below the waterline, which I couldn't achieve in time, so no worthwhile photographs of that bit either) and a trip through a bit of artificial Antarctica in what you are meant to think is a snow tractor (where after a practice run, you might be able to get pictures that look almost like genuine Antarctica, but we only went through once, so my pictures aren't convincing). Altogether a challenge for an amateur photographer, but good fun. Recommended.

Replica of Scott's Kitchen in Antarctica
Replica of Scott's Kitchen in Antarctica
Antarctic Musical Centre
Antarctic Musical Centre
Films in Antarctica
Films in Antarctica
Replica of Scott's Surveying Equipment
Replica of Scott's Surveying Equipment
Replica of Scott's Instruments
Replica of Scott's Instruments
Replica of a work desk in Scott's Antarctic
Replica of a work desk in Scott's Antarctic
Desk and bed in Scott's Antarctic
Desk and bed in Scott's Antarctic
Stingray
Stingray
Aquarium with moving fish – 1
Aquarium with moving fish – 1
Aquarium with moving fish  – 2
Aquarium with moving fish – 2
Important Safety Notice
Important Safety Notice
Real Penguins – 1
Real Penguins – 1
Real Penguins – 2
Real Penguins – 2
Real Penguins – 3
Real Penguins – 3
Back-turning penguins
Back-turning penguins
Idealised penguins
Idealised penguins