Auckland Botanic Gardens, New Zealand
In a last, brief embrace of North Island New Zealand, Vilis and I spent today’s sunny late morning and early afternoon hours in the Auckland Botanic Gardens and on the adjacent Puhinui Stream Fo...
Hiking Ngahopua and Hongi’s Tracks, North Island, New Zealand
Again, mist and drizzle shrouded the central North Island this morning, and again Vilis and I tramped through dim native forests thick with a sense of time gone past. Shifting cloud obscured or reveal...