A few of my holiday snaps

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So Bride of Boogie and myself managed to get away for a trip of a lifetime, luckily only a few weeks before all the coronavirus kicked off. We spent 6 weeks in January and February travelling around New Zealand; North Island with my bro and sis in law, South Island by ourselves. Then we dropped off at Hawaii on the way back home, figuring that we'd need a rest from all the constant travelling around NZ. Loved New Zealand...we had a brilliant time in a beautiful country, we both agreed that if we'd been younger we'd have considered emigrating over there.

Anyhoo, here's some of my shots from the trip, a bit of a mixed bag from North and South Islands, plus a couple form Hawaii ( we stayed on the North Shore area of Oahu, where all the big surf competitions are held). I'd debated whether to take my big DSLR and lenses but I'm rather glad I did.

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captainbeeffart

looks wonderful, always wanted to go to new zealand, thanks for sharing.

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Moominpapa

Some really good shots in there - thanks for sharing them. That red E-Type, tho ...

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Moominpapa said:

Some really good shots in there - thanks for sharing them. That red E-Type, tho ...

Thank you 

 I wish I could’ve got a better shot of the E type, but I had to run to the middle of the road and quickly grab a shot while avoiding the traffic. There’s actually a lot of old British, Jap and US motors on the road out there. They don’t salt their roads so they last much better than here.  

sev112

Fabulous photos - thanks for sharing them and making me happy tonight
so glad you got such a lovely holiday between you
love the donkey

jimkehoe

Excellent. Thank you.

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Thanks both. 

IMC1980

Looks beautiful, I have a friend who lives in Auckland and he always says there is an open invitation to come out and see him. Only catch is you really need at least 4 weeks to get most of it, which is a no go for me at the moment. Great shots as well.

EricTheWeary

Nice. 

I think everyone I’ve met who has been there has loved it. 

DB1

Fantastic photos!

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IMC1980 said:

Looks beautiful, I have a friend who lives in Auckland and he always says there is an open invitation to come out and see him. Only catch is you really need at least 4 weeks to get most of it, which is a no go for me at the moment. Great shots as well.

I’d say even four weeks is pushing it, you could easily spend that just going round the North Island. We would’ve liked to have spent more than a couple of days at some places, for instance we could have easily spent a week in the Bay of Islands and I would’ve liked more time on the Coromandel peninsula, but we couldn’t really afford it. We used AirBnB’s but lots of people just rent a motor home. 

Thanks all for the nice comments.