Travel Photo Journal #2

More photos from my trip to Tauranga.

 

Maori sculpture in Tauranga City at the dockside of the Matariki - the seven sisters of the Pleiades.

 25 March 10:32 AM

Tauranga City and surrounds. Minden is at marker A, so the photos below from the Lookout are are about 8 km SSW of that, and at a greater elevation.

 

Maori waka in Tauranga City.

Mount Maungaui, Maoau in Maori - track to the summit. On my journey I didn't scale it, to my disappointment, but took an hour long walk around the Mount with my great aunty instead, which was definitely still awesome.

Walking track on the ocean side of Mount Maunganui with the late summer sun streaming in.

A gull gildes over the statue of Tangaroa in Pilot Bay, looking from the Mount, as a yaught and speedboat sail by. The Port of Tauranga is on the distant shore, with the ciry and the Kamai Hills rising in the distance.

 A close up of the statue of Tangaroa, the Maori god of the Sea.
(Image not mine. Source: http://gorgeouswithattitude.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/tangaroa-sculpture-by-frank-szirmay.html)

Mount Maunganui seen from the street, a holiday park at the bottom.

Full Moon in Virgo in the sky over the city, seen from my fathers house in the country.

The ducks and geese at the pond on Millers Road. A farm that I played on as a child used to be there, but now it is a whole new suburb. This pond in magical  though :)

Minden Lookout in Tauranga, looking towards Omokoroa (left side), and Matakana Island on the horizon.

Minden Lookout again, focused on Mount Maunganui on the horizon. A beautiful landscape.

Fractal tree shines from the light of the All, the Sun. Rather proud of this image :)

 Roses from my father's garden in Te Puna.

 My crystals (on my shirt) and the collection of crystals with words etched into them charging in the Sun.

 Travelling home in the bus and coming through the Waikato plains after coming through the mist shrouded Kaimais at sunrise was a surreal experience.

 The sun bursts forth on my new day as I return to Dunedin.

Some more flowers from with father's garden. The liight is glowing on the flowers in this image which gives them a visible aura, which I like about this photo.

That wraps up the North Island portion of my travel photo blog. Next up is Central Otago.