Travelling Australia Adventures

Beach rock formations

Sooty and Pied Oyster Catchers

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Silver Gulls

Black Backed Gull with a pipi

Juvenile Black Backed Gull

Sunrise from Mt Maunganui

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Bird keeping an eye on my progress

Container ship heading out at sunrise

View of the harbour and oceanfront from the top of the mountain

Our unit is in the row behind the beachfront

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Top of the mountain

Street art of Owen Dippie. Tuaranga. Nelson Mandella

Johny Cash

Albert Einstein looking a bit worse for wear. He is pretty old, in fairness

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Ina Te Papatahi, of Nga Puhi

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Ice (cream) Man

We had a visit to the Vintage aircraft museum in Tuaranga

This beautifully restored DC3 Dakota is a working aircraft. Mark and I went for a flight in it

Violet the pilot is getting ready to secure the loading ramp

Boarding

Passengers must have been skinnier back then. It was a squeeze for Mark and I

The cockpit and pilots. Violet wasn

Rounding Mount Maunganui

Leaving Auckland on the Emirates Airbus A380

Arriving to a cloudy Sydney