Bay of Islands - Day Four

This morning we headed up to Kerikeri and Rainbow Falls. These are a few of the shots I took there. Tomorrow we are going out in the boat so there should be something other than waterfalls to see :)

Whangarei Falls

Today we drove and drove and drove. A trip down memory lane for my husband's parents was the order of the day so we drove to Dargaville and back. On the return trip we stopped in at the Whangarei Falls and caught up with a couple of old friends. Tomorrow is going to be a bit of a rest day, so any photos will be local to where we are staying.

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Bay of Islands - Day Two

This morning we went exploring around the area that we are staying. There is a track through the bush at the bottom of the garden that leads past the mangroves and to an old unused railway track. The track is now used as a walking track and short cut to town. I was torn between having a wide angle lens for the scenery and a zoom lens for the birdlife!  In the end my poor long suffering assistant (hubby) decided I had to choose one lens and stick with it. So I chose the zoom.

I shot a couple of birds that I can’t identify, so if anyone knows what these two birds are it would be greatly appreciated. The green one is a similar size to a thrush and the other bird is as small (or smaller) than a finch and is very quick darting about the trees. I am very curious as to what these birds are.

 

Just before lunch we went down to the first of the waterfalls that we planned to visit, Haruru Falls. We weren’t able to get very close to them at the bottom and I wasn’t overly fussed about going to the top of the falls, so the resulting images are not what I was hoping for but there is always another waterfall  :)