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An evening at Te Araroa, #EastCape.

Mountains steep (📷1),
Meadows deep (📷2).
Seafaring souls (📷3),
Heavenly goals (📷4).

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An evening at Te Araroa, #EastCape.

Mountains steep (📷1),
Meadows deep (📷2).
Seafaring souls (📷3),
Heavenly goals (📷4).

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Wakatiri | Lottin Point is the most northerly extent of #Gisborne District (📷1). Looking across Kawakawa Bay from Haupara Pt towards Te Araroa (📷2). In Te Araroa’s school grounds is NZ’s oldest (600+ yrs) & largest (21.2m high/ 40m wide) pōhutukawa, named Te Waha-o-Rerekohu (📷3). The name may relate to a Māori store house formerly on site; one has been reconstructed (📷4).

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Wakatiri | Lottin Point is the most northerly extent of #Gisborne District (📷1). Looking across Kawakawa Bay from Haupara Pt towards Te Araroa (📷2). In Te Araroa’s school grounds is NZ’s oldest (600+ yrs) & largest (21.2m high/ 40m wide) pōhutukawa, named Te Waha-o-Rerekohu (📷3). The name may relate to a Māori store house formerly on site; one has been reconstructed (📷4).

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Raukokore’s wooden Anglican church is a local landmark, built 1894, with free-range 🐎 horses minding the grass (📷1). It’s still in use & in immaculate condition (📷2). On the back wall are pencil drawings by a boy named Taika Waititi, who spent some of his childhood here (📷3). He would go on to become a well-known Kiwi 🎥 filmmaker; “Boy” was set in nearby Waihau Bay (📷4).

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Raukokore’s wooden Anglican church is a local landmark, built 1894, with free-range 🐎 horses minding the grass (📷1). It’s still in use & in immaculate condition (📷2). On the back wall are pencil drawings by a boy named Taika Waititi, who spent some of his childhood here (📷3). He would go on to become a well-known Kiwi 🎥 filmmaker; “Boy” was set in nearby Waihau Bay (📷4).

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Eastern BOP coastal scenery from SH35. Fishing from the long beach between Pehitairi & Hawai (📷1). Whituare Bay (📷2). Small settlement of Houpoto (📷3). Mouth of the Mōtū River (📷4).

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Eastern BOP coastal scenery from SH35. Fishing from the long beach between Pehitairi & Hawai (📷1). Whituare Bay (📷2). Small settlement of Houpoto (📷3). Mouth of the Mōtū River (📷4).

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Tauranga Bridge (📷1) is south from Ōpōtiki on SH2, in Waioeka Gorge Scenic Reserve. Built in 1922 to replace an earlier one destroyed by flood in 1918, it spans the Waioeka River (📷2) & served settler farms in Tauranga Valley. A 1.5h loop track from here involves 2 stream crossings, incld. at mouth of Tauranga Stream (📷3). A symmetrical railing knot in No. 8 wire (📷4).

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Tauranga Bridge (📷1) is south from Ōpōtiki on SH2, in Waioeka Gorge Scenic Reserve. Built in 1922 to replace an earlier one destroyed by flood in 1918, it spans the Waioeka River (📷2) & served settler farms in Tauranga Valley. A 1.5h loop track from here involves 2 stream crossings, incld. at mouth of Tauranga Stream (📷3). A symmetrical railing knot in No. 8 wire (📷4).

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Hukutaia Domain nr. Ōpōtiki contains many species of trees, birds & #fungi. A walk here is especially “fruitful” for spotting Favolaschia claudopus, the orange pore fungus. Viewed from the top you can appreciate why it’s sometimes likened to a ping-pong bat (📷1) with prominent pores on the underside (📷2). Also saw Cerrena zonata (📷3) & Auricularia cornea/ ear #fungus (📷4).

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Hukutaia Domain nr. Ōpōtiki contains many species of trees, birds & #fungi. A walk here is especially “fruitful” for spotting Favolaschia claudopus, the orange pore fungus. Viewed from the top you can appreciate why it’s sometimes likened to a ping-pong bat (📷1) with prominent pores on the underside (📷2). Also saw Cerrena zonata (📷3) & Auricularia cornea/ ear #fungus (📷4).

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Hukutaia Domain nr. Ōpōtiki is a 5ha reserve amidst farmland (📷1). Within is Taketakerau | The Burial Tree, a large 2,000+ yr old endemic Vitex lucens/ pūriri into which the Upokorehe iwi set the bones of their distinguished dead, rendering it tapu | sacred (📷2). Although bones are gone the tree has guardian carvings (📷3). The pink pūriri flowers were past their best (📷4).

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Hukutaia Domain nr. Ōpōtiki is a 5ha reserve amidst farmland (📷1). Within is Taketakerau | The Burial Tree, a large 2,000+ yr old endemic Vitex lucens/ pūriri into which the Upokorehe iwi set the bones of their distinguished dead, rendering it tapu | sacred (📷2). Although bones are gone the tree has guardian carvings (📷3). The pink pūriri flowers were past their best (📷4).

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An advantage of being “on site” in a camper is witnessing changing light thru the day. Whakaari | White Is, seen from Ōpōtiki’s Hukuwai Beach Recreation Reserve, smoked shades of white, grey & blue (📷1). Light can also change our mood—from irritation over fly-tipping (for which us freedom campers will be blamed) to joy at the reds & golds of sunset on Hukuwai Beach (📷2–4).

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An advantage of being “on site” in a camper is witnessing changing light thru the day. Whakaari | White Is, seen from Ōpōtiki’s Hukuwai Beach Recreation Reserve, smoked shades of white, grey & blue (📷1). Light can also change our mood—from irritation over fly-tipping (for which us freedom campers will be blamed) to joy at the reds & golds of sunset on Hukuwai Beach (📷2–4).

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The 11km-long Ōhope Beach on the ocean side of Ōhope Spit identifies as NZ’s “most-loved beach” (📷1). Large shallow estuary of Ōhiwa Harbour on the landward side (📷2). A wildlife refuge at the Spit’s tip allows endangered #birds to nest safely, overlooked by Onekawa Pā across harbour entrance (📷3). A Sterna striata/ white-fronted tern returns with shoal fish in beak (📷4).

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The 11km-long Ōhope Beach on the ocean side of Ōhope Spit identifies as NZ’s “most-loved beach” (📷1). Large shallow estuary of Ōhiwa Harbour on the landward side (📷2). A wildlife refuge at the Spit’s tip allows endangered #birds to nest safely, overlooked by Onekawa Pā across harbour entrance (📷3). A Sterna striata/ white-fronted tern returns with shoal fish in beak (📷4).

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“Kiwi Boy” #art on Whakatāne riverfront (📷1) shares whakapapa with a bench-sitting bird in Auckland Botanical Gardens; several less anthropomorphic #kiwi sculptures also decorate bank. According to AI species classifier app, this painted gull-like local is probably Homo sapiens (📷2). Stern of ceremonial waka housed nr. river mouth (📷3), which is hazardous to navigate (📷4).

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“Kiwi Boy” #art on Whakatāne riverfront (📷1) shares whakapapa with a bench-sitting bird in Auckland Botanical Gardens; several less anthropomorphic #kiwi sculptures also decorate bank. According to AI species classifier app, this painted gull-like local is probably Homo sapiens (📷2). Stern of ceremonial waka housed nr. river mouth (📷3), which is hazardous to navigate (📷4).

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🌳🌲🌳 B last entered the Whirinaki Forest in the early 1980s, on a high school field trip, counting seedlings and making observations with pencil and paper as a junior member of the school’s ecology club. With the aid of digital technology, we can share the 👁️ sights and 🔊 sounds of this ancient forest with you.

👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2024/01/15/into-the-forest/

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🌳🌲🌳 B last entered the Whirinaki Forest in the early 1980s, on a high school field trip, counting seedlings and making observations with pencil and paper as a junior member of the school’s ecology club. With the aid of digital technology, we can share the 👁️ sights and 🔊 sounds of this ancient forest with you.

👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2024/01/15/into-the-forest/

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Transiting through Auckland and Southern Coromandel, we made our way into the western Bay of Plenty.

👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2024/01/15/beaches-a-plenty/

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Transiting through Auckland and Southern Coromandel, we made our way into the western Bay of Plenty.

👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2024/01/15/beaches-a-plenty/

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(2/2) Whirinaki Waterfall Loop Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. Possibly decaying Entoloma canoconicum (📷1)? Endemic Uropetala carovei/ giant dragonfly/ kapokapowai can reach 13cm wingspan (📷2). Heimiomyces velutipes is native #fungus (📷3). A native emerald-colour Stethaspis longicornis/ mumu chafer, stuck by a wing in Carex uncinata/ “bastard grass” (📷4).

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(2/2) Whirinaki Waterfall Loop Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. Possibly decaying Entoloma canoconicum (📷1)? Endemic Uropetala carovei/ giant dragonfly/ kapokapowai can reach 13cm wingspan (📷2). Heimiomyces velutipes is native #fungus (📷3). A native emerald-colour Stethaspis longicornis/ mumu chafer, stuck by a wing in Carex uncinata/ “bastard grass” (📷4).

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(1/2) Whirinaki Waterfall Loop Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. Follows Whirinaki River (📷1) to Whirinaki Waterfall, loops back on opposite bank. Prumnopitys taxifolia/ black pine/ mataī bark has distinctive “hammered” appearance (📷2). Endemic Cyathea dealbata/ silver fern/ ponga is NZ icon, known for its silvery-white underside (📷3). Whirinaki Falls (📷4).

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(1/2) Whirinaki Waterfall Loop Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. Follows Whirinaki River (📷1) to Whirinaki Waterfall, loops back on opposite bank. Prumnopitys taxifolia/ black pine/ mataī bark has distinctive “hammered” appearance (📷2). Endemic Cyathea dealbata/ silver fern/ ponga is NZ icon, known for its silvery-white underside (📷3). Whirinaki Falls (📷4).

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(2/2) Arohaki Lagoon Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. Endemic Poliocephalus rufopectus/ NZ grebe/ weweia (📷1). NZ’s largest damselfly, endemic Austrolestes colensonis/ blue damselfly/ kēkēwai (📷2) & more common native Xanthocnemis zealandica/ red damselfly/ kihitara (📷3). Surrounding viewing platform, small native herb Lobelia angulata/ pānakenake (📷4).

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(2/2) Arohaki Lagoon Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. Endemic Poliocephalus rufopectus/ NZ grebe/ weweia (📷1). NZ’s largest damselfly, endemic Austrolestes colensonis/ blue damselfly/ kēkēwai (📷2) & more common native Xanthocnemis zealandica/ red damselfly/ kihitara (📷3). Surrounding viewing platform, small native herb Lobelia angulata/ pānakenake (📷4).

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(1/2) Arohaki Lagoon Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. At end of River Rd, 🅿️ is 1.5km beyond main 🅿️. Tree ferns beneath tawa/ podocarps (📷1). Not your usual shelf #fungus, this is Cyclocybe parasitica or tawaka in Māori (📷2). Heard the kākā call for some time before spotted in canopy (📷3). Tall kahikatea surround rain-fed lagoon (📷4) w/ cacophony of frogs.

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(1/2) Arohaki Lagoon Track, Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. At end of River Rd, 🅿️ is 1.5km beyond main 🅿️. Tree ferns beneath tawa/ podocarps (📷1). Not your usual shelf #fungus, this is Cyclocybe parasitica or tawaka in Māori (📷2). Heard the kākā call for some time before spotted in canopy (📷3). Tall kahikatea surround rain-fed lagoon (📷4) w/ cacophony of frogs.

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Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. With adjacent Te Urewera = largest tract of native 🌲 (podocarp w/ beech at higher altitudes) in North Island; a refuge for rare/ endangered species. No long-tailed 🦇 bats in warm dusk sky (📷1). On 🔦 Night Life Walk out & back via 1.4km of Sanctuary Loop Walk from Minginui ⛺️ (📷3) we recorded kiwi & 🦉 morepork; saw glow worms (📷4).

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Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. With adjacent Te Urewera = largest tract of native 🌲 (podocarp w/ beech at higher altitudes) in North Island; a refuge for rare/ endangered species. No long-tailed 🦇 bats in warm dusk sky (📷1). On 🔦 Night Life Walk out & back via 1.4km of Sanctuary Loop Walk from Minginui ⛺️ (📷3) we recorded kiwi & 🦉 morepork; saw glow worms (📷4).

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After chores in #Whakatāne we turned inland. 🥝 Kiwifruit vines are a common sight in BOP region (📷1). Visible from the coast, the volcanic cone of Puauaki | Mt Edgecumbe at 821m grew larger (📷2); it last erupted ~2,300 yrs ago. Lake Aniwaniwa came into being when the Rangitaiki River was dammed (📷3). A narrow dirt road leads to DOC’s Sanctuary Campsite at Minginui (📷4).

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After chores in #Whakatāne we turned inland. 🥝 Kiwifruit vines are a common sight in BOP region (📷1). Visible from the coast, the volcanic cone of Puauaki | Mt Edgecumbe at 821m grew larger (📷2); it last erupted ~2,300 yrs ago. Lake Aniwaniwa came into being when the Rangitaiki River was dammed (📷3). A narrow dirt road leads to DOC’s Sanctuary Campsite at Minginui (📷4).

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Seen from DOC camp at Matatā, Te Awa a te Atua Bch looking southeast on a clear afternoon (📷1) & northwest at sunset (📷2). This exceedingly friendly camp offers the very latest in fabric rejuvenation technology 😉 (📷3). On the horizon Moutohora | Whale Is is an offshore wildlife sanctuary (📷4); further offshore, out of frame, is Whakaari | White Is—a very active 🌋 volcano.

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Seen from DOC camp at Matatā, Te Awa a te Atua Bch looking southeast on a clear afternoon (📷1) & northwest at sunset (📷2). This exceedingly friendly camp offers the very latest in fabric rejuvenation technology 😉 (📷3). On the horizon Moutohora | Whale Is is an offshore wildlife sanctuary (📷4); further offshore, out of frame, is Whakaari | White Is—a very active 🌋 volcano.

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Pāpāmoa Hills Cultural Heritage Regional Park protects an extensive & centuries-old Māori pā complex, with 1,630 archaeological features. Karangaumu Pā one of the largest, adopting a defensive design with commanding coastal views (📷1&2). The site has views to Tauranga/ Mt Maunganui (📷3). After, delicious 🍓 ice cream from Black Stump Berries nr. Te Puke—NZ’s 🥝 capital (📷4).

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Pāpāmoa Hills Cultural Heritage Regional Park protects an extensive & centuries-old Māori pā complex, with 1,630 archaeological features. Karangaumu Pā one of the largest, adopting a defensive design with commanding coastal views (📷1&2). The site has views to Tauranga/ Mt Maunganui (📷3). After, delicious 🍓 ice cream from Black Stump Berries nr. Te Puke—NZ’s 🥝 capital (📷4).

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(2/2) Mt Maunganui, #Tauranga. In Mauao Historic Reserve, after a steep 1.3km climb, views from Te Tihi o Mauao | Mt Maunganui summit of the suburb below, incld. seaward Omanu Bch & harbour-side Pilot Bay (📷1). Seen during our descent, a paraglider soars in the updrafts, backed by Matakana Is (📷2) & Panepane Pt/ Tauranga Entrance (📷3). Cruise ship docked in Pilot Bay (📷4).

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(2/2) Mt Maunganui, #Tauranga. In Mauao Historic Reserve, after a steep 1.3km climb, views from Te Tihi o Mauao | Mt Maunganui summit of the suburb below, incld. seaward Omanu Bch & harbour-side Pilot Bay (📷1). Seen during our descent, a paraglider soars in the updrafts, backed by Matakana Is (📷2) & Panepane Pt/ Tauranga Entrance (📷3). Cruise ship docked in Pilot Bay (📷4).

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(1/2) Mt Maunganui, #Tauranga. Lifeguards on Omanu Bch, with a view to petite Motuotau Is just offshore (📷1). Mt Maunganui | Mauao seen from Moturiki (Leisure) Is—where the reported blowhole was inoperative (📷2). From Mauao Historic Reserve as we ascend, looking over Main Bch/ Moturiki & Motuotau Is (📷3) & further up, beyond to Omanu Bch & the suburb of Mt Maunganui (📷4).

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(1/2) Mt Maunganui, #Tauranga. Lifeguards on Omanu Bch, with a view to petite Motuotau Is just offshore (📷1). Mt Maunganui | Mauao seen from Moturiki (Leisure) Is—where the reported blowhole was inoperative (📷2). From Mauao Historic Reserve as we ascend, looking over Main Bch/ Moturiki & Motuotau Is (📷3) & further up, beyond to Omanu Bch & the suburb of Mt Maunganui (📷4).

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Katikati is NZ’s 🥑 “Avocado Capital” a.k.a. “Mural Town” for its outdoor artworks e.g. “Overload” by P Nicholson (📷1). In the foothills of the Kaimai Ranges sth of town is “Tuahu”, one of the largest kauri in BOP w/ a trunk diameter of 2.7m (📷2). Nearby, a warm soak at geothermal Sapphire Springs (📷3). View from Minden Lookout over Tauranga & suburb of Mt Maunganui (📷4).

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Katikati is NZ’s 🥑 “Avocado Capital” a.k.a. “Mural Town” for its outdoor artworks e.g. “Overload” by P Nicholson (📷1). In the foothills of the Kaimai Ranges sth of town is “Tuahu”, one of the largest kauri in BOP w/ a trunk diameter of 2.7m (📷2). Nearby, a warm soak at geothermal Sapphire Springs (📷3). View from Minden Lookout over Tauranga & suburb of Mt Maunganui (📷4).

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The 9km-long & popular Waihi Beach (📷1) sits in the northern part of the Bay of Plenty coastline—a 260km-long bight. The volcanic Mayor Island | Tuhua lies 26km offshore & is a privately-owned wildlife refuge (📷2). Also popular on a warm Sunday afternoon was Anzac Bay, at the tip of the spit forming the Katikati Entrance into Tauranga Harbour (📷3&4).

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The 9km-long & popular Waihi Beach (📷1) sits in the northern part of the Bay of Plenty coastline—a 260km-long bight. The volcanic Mayor Island | Tuhua lies 26km offshore & is a privately-owned wildlife refuge (📷2). Also popular on a warm Sunday afternoon was Anzac Bay, at the tip of the spit forming the Katikati Entrance into Tauranga Harbour (📷3&4).

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Paeroa’s mineral water is rich in Mg bicarbonate; with a twist of lemon it evolved into the “world famous in NZ” fizzy drink L&P (📷1). Also in Southern Coromandel, Karangahake is known for gold mining & rail history. On tunnelled Windows Walk, Waitawheta River & historic 🐴-drawn ore truck tramway (📷2). On Railway Tunnel Loop, Karangahake Gorge (📷3) & 1km rail tunnel (📷4).

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Paeroa’s mineral water is rich in Mg bicarbonate; with a twist of lemon it evolved into the “world famous in NZ” fizzy drink L&P (📷1). Also in Southern Coromandel, Karangahake is known for gold mining & rail history. On tunnelled Windows Walk, Waitawheta River & historic 🐴-drawn ore truck tramway (📷2). On Railway Tunnel Loop, Karangahake Gorge (📷3) & 1km rail tunnel (📷4).

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NZ Warbirds at Ardmore. Display in 2 hangars incld. 🇺🇸 A-4K Skyhawk, which gave RNZAF a fighter wing until 2001 (📷1); a gorgeous WWII 🇺🇸 P51D Mustang & several 🇺🇸 Harvard trainers (📷2); 🇨🇦 Chipmunk & replica WWI 🇩🇪 Albatross biplane (📷3); reproduction WWI 🇬🇧 BE2c biplane (📷4). 🇬🇧 Spitfire & 🇺🇸 Corsair were being serviced 😔. Huge collection of miniatures.

https://nzwarbirds.org.nz/

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NZ Warbirds at Ardmore. Display in 2 hangars incld. 🇺🇸 A-4K Skyhawk, which gave RNZAF a fighter wing until 2001 (📷1); a gorgeous WWII 🇺🇸 P51D Mustang & several 🇺🇸 Harvard trainers (📷2); 🇨🇦 Chipmunk & replica WWI 🇩🇪 Albatross biplane (📷3); reproduction WWI 🇬🇧 BE2c biplane (📷4). 🇬🇧 Spitfire & 🇺🇸 Corsair were being serviced 😔. Huge collection of miniatures.

https://nzwarbirds.org.nz/

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Do you like #birds? If so and you’re visiting #Auckland you would be hard-pressed to spend a better day out than taking a ferry to Tiritiri Matangi Island.

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👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2024/01/06/a-day-on-tiritiri-matangi/

Do you like #birds? If so and you’re visiting #Auckland you would be hard-pressed to spend a better day out than taking a ferry to Tiritiri Matangi Island.

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👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2024/01/06/a-day-on-tiritiri-matangi/

A bromeliad at #Auckland Botanic Gardens (📷1), which has plenty of space to wander & sniff. If you’re lucky some of the birds may hold perfectly still for a photograph (📷2). Back down memory lane for B on a visit to Maraetai Beach, where jumping from the wharf is still a thing (📷3). Magazine Bay further along the Pōhutukawa Coast another option; that’s Waiheke beyond (📷4).

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A bromeliad at #Auckland Botanic Gardens (📷1), which has plenty of space to wander & sniff. If you’re lucky some of the birds may hold perfectly still for a photograph (📷2). Back down memory lane for B on a visit to Maraetai Beach, where jumping from the wharf is still a thing (📷3). Magazine Bay further along the Pōhutukawa Coast another option; that’s Waiheke beyond (📷4).

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(7/7) Tiritiri Matangi, #Auckland. It’s not just forest #birds to look for, however. We caught the tail-end of a tuatara retreating into its beachside bach-burrow (📷1). Maui's copper butterfly/ Lycaena edna (📷2). Giant wētā (📷3). Little blue penguin, in a nest box (📷4). Seen but no 📷: kākāriki; brown quail; swallow; pukeko & NZ robin. Not seen but present: kiwi, takahē.

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(7/7) Tiritiri Matangi, #Auckland. It’s not just forest #birds to look for, however. We caught the tail-end of a tuatara retreating into its beachside bach-burrow (📷1). Maui's copper butterfly/ Lycaena edna (📷2). Giant wētā (📷3). Little blue penguin, in a nest box (📷4). Seen but no 📷: kākāriki; brown quail; swallow; pukeko & NZ robin. Not seen but present: kiwi, takahē.

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(6/7) Tiritiri Matangi, #Auckland. Other forest #birds seen were the squeaky-winged NZ pigeon/ kerurū/ Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (📷1); shy North Island saddleback/ tīeke/ Philesturnus rufusater—also a wattlebird (📷2); songful bellbird/ kōrimako/ Anthornis melanura (📷3) & the playful tūī/ Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, who apparently enjoys a good bath on a warm day (📷4)!

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(6/7) Tiritiri Matangi, #Auckland. Other forest #birds seen were the squeaky-winged NZ pigeon/ kerurū/ Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (📷1); shy North Island saddleback/ tīeke/ Philesturnus rufusater—also a wattlebird (📷2); songful bellbird/ kōrimako/ Anthornis melanura (📷3) & the playful tūī/ Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, who apparently enjoys a good bath on a warm day (📷4)!

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