Category: Photography
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NZ – Sweet As – Recalculating
All photos taken on October 29, 2025. Our delayed arrival in New Zealand and the wet weather conspired against our chances to visit the Eyefull Tower and Driving Creek Railway attraction on the other side of Coromandel town. I hear what you are saying, with names like that, the attractions wer probably pretty hokey. We…
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NZ – Sweet As – Once Around the Town
All photos taken October 28, 2025. When we were in Thames in 2014, we hardly gave the town a second glance, as we hit all the highlights on the Coromandel Peninsula. Staying close to home today due to weather, gave us a chance to make amends for that oversight. Below is our walking map for…
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Six Appeal
All photos taken on September 20, 2021. Walking back from the Red Chairs, we opted to take Trail 6 back, rather than hike uphill on the Water Tower Trail. We had often shied away from this trail, as it is also used by horses, with the double hazards of lumpy horse exhaust and humps and…
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Same Old, Same Old
All photos taken on September 20, 2025. In keeping with the Reverse Course post, we opted to do the Water Tower hike as our second hike of the day. As many will recall, we did Water Tower first back on September 16, 2025. No need to reprise the commentary, but here is the hike of…
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Reverse Course
All photos taken on September 20, 2025. Today was Saturday and we had no desire to be in with the crowds in Jasper town or on the more popular trails. As such, we were going to mostly stay put on the nearby trails and drive sparingly. The hikes from our first day came to mind,…
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NZ – Sweet As – Wet and Wild
All photos taken on October 28, 2025. The weather in Thames today was forecast to be a bit unpredictable. Cloudy with showers, at times heavy, followed by sunshine and cloud mix, followed again by showers, at times heavy, with gusty winds. With this in mind, we set off after breakfast to do a bit of…
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NZ – Sweet As – Cottage in the Sky
Photos taken on October 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2025, during our stay at Grafton Cottages in Thames, New Zealand. October 27, 2025 In an earlier post, I described the logistics of changing my hotel reservations after Air New Zealand cancelled our original October 23 flight and I had to rebook on October 25. We…
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NZ – Sweet As – Really Big Trees
All photos taken on October 27, 2025. At the end of the main trail, there was a platform to sit and ponder life, before going onward to the Kauri grove. We chatted with some locals who hike the trail regularly, before moving on…up. Agathis australis, commonly known as kauri, is a species of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae,…
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NZ – Sweet As – Its a Jungle Out There
All photos taken on October 27, 2025. Now, it might seem counter-intuitive to undertake a long hike after a long overnight flight, but the time difference between Vancouver and NZ on our arrival date was only 4 hours, even though NZ was already one day ahead. We had done this hike in 2014 and really…
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PLB – Day 5 – A Little Bit of a Good Thing
All photos taken on September 20, 2025. Some days are better than others for time at the lake. This day was still a good day, but we had other things to occupy our time, including an afternoon CFL football game in which our team was playing. The morning was glorious and I walked down at…
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