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Paul Dudley | profile | all galleries >> 22 Overseas Trips >> North Island of NZ 2009 >> Album 6: Wine, Leigh, a cemetery and a storm (25 pictures) tree view | thumbnails | slideshow | map

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 6: Wine, Leigh, a cemetery and a storm (25 pictures)

Leigh is a little one-motel town close to the Marine Reserve around Goat Island, where you can take a tour in a glass-bottomed boat to see the underwater life which has learned about the advantages of living in a marine reserve. That's what we came to see. But there was a storm which kept the glass-bottomed boat safe on its mooring in the little harbour at Leigh. So we saw other things instead, and took pictures of them.

Vineyards at the Ascension Winery
Vineyards at the Ascension Winery
Wine Tasting
Wine Tasting
Restaurant and garden
Restaurant and garden
Small marigolds, large visitor
Small marigolds, large visitor
Quiet Harbour – 1
Quiet Harbour – 1
Quiet harbour – 2
Quiet harbour – 2
View from Leigh Wharf
View from Leigh Wharf
Leigh duck
Leigh duck
Rejection
Rejection
Leigh Cemetery - 1
Leigh Cemetery - 1
Leigh Cemetery - 2
Leigh Cemetery - 2
Treasure hunter's memorial
Treasure hunter's memorial
Teenager's memorial
Teenager's memorial
Exuberant memorial
Exuberant memorial
Shakespear family graves
Shakespear family graves
Live music at the motel
Live music at the motel
Breakfast at the Leigh Motel
Breakfast at the Leigh Motel
Motel Bouganvillea
Motel Bouganvillea
Windy water - 1
Windy water - 1
Windy water – 2
Windy water – 2
Windy water - 3
Windy water - 3
Wild Coast
Wild Coast
No tourists today
No tourists today
Goat Island Marine Reserve
Goat Island Marine Reserve
From the car park
From the car park