Glowworm cave at lake Waitomo

Underground river to se glowworms in the cave - 2 miles underground

entrance to the tour

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looks like a sauna...where our food was cooked at the maori dinner & show

Dean was chosen as the Chief of the group and was involved in the ceremonial dinner..

Rainbow Springs tour - a big California redwood

wild rainbow trout swimming-Dean forgot his pole

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kiwi bird and their eggs they lay

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Agradome tour - 19 types of sheep

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Mick the sheep shearer

Te Puia thermal geyser tour

mud pools - lots of strong sulfur smell

shot from the plane of the largest lake in NZ - Lake Taupo near the volcano Mt. Taupo

Our visit to Christchurch where an 7.2 earthquake occurred in Feb. 2011, as they try to rebuild 

the church being reinforced hoping to save

The very famous Wizard of Christchurch

another view of the church

a church as it stands today...

a picture of the church how it looked before the earthquake

185 people lost their lives...a white chair for each...none are the same.....they lost 27,000 structures.....total devastation

the bus we took a tour of the city in Chirstchurch

A view from a church window at Lake Tekapo

a view over Lake Tekapo with it's mountain glacial water

a view of Mt. Cook as we get closer with turquoise glacial water, 12,000 feet to the summit

A view with Mt Cook in the background

Mt. Cook where Sir Edmund Hillary climbed to the top in 1948...his home town

Dean & a Statue of Sir Edmund Hillary at the Mt Cook Alpine Center where their is a museum in his honor - we had lunch here, and hiked the trail to the base of Mt. Cook

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Dean in comparison to Sir Edmund Hillary

Mt. Cook in all it's glory on a 78 degree day

Dean knows where it is...and where to climb

natures beauty at it's best - Mt. Cook

pic of a glacier

Dean & Judy lookin' good on our way to Milford Sound - all the peaks between 6 and 9 thousand feet

On our walk to the base of Mt Cook