tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66822324086097006922024-03-13T11:02:20.330-07:00Cakelaw's Travel TalesCakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-1428952139927600522024-01-02T18:20:00.000-08:002024-01-20T19:32:09.438-08:00Green Island, Queensland<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vUI31u8JR7PNiXnD37GneE09G0DUALL3SQyp0OX7FTuW3hvk2r8xXopZJh7tNR3sy-vV7rz6cZgsIb_atTwOuu7Ux_yPYSuaMGogv1tLa7LH1L34DuNUnhmEWmhE8ei2p0M1j8CfEFHUAaSqs2y5gFotPeRzeYJf5DHsQ-HrFwz8-Yv9xhl5osoJ/s4032/3DA8597E-D7D8-4CA5-9CBF-A7A1272A8962.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vUI31u8JR7PNiXnD37GneE09G0DUALL3SQyp0OX7FTuW3hvk2r8xXopZJh7tNR3sy-vV7rz6cZgsIb_atTwOuu7Ux_yPYSuaMGogv1tLa7LH1L34DuNUnhmEWmhE8ei2p0M1j8CfEFHUAaSqs2y5gFotPeRzeYJf5DHsQ-HrFwz8-Yv9xhl5osoJ/w400-h300/3DA8597E-D7D8-4CA5-9CBF-A7A1272A8962.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> When my mother and I visited Cairns, Queensland, we decided to take a day trip by ferry to Green Island. Green Island is a coral cay, 27km offshore from Cairns. As we disembarked from the boat, the scene at the top of this post greeted us. I am sure you can agree that it is very beautiful.<p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKRqMc3DpYZX3OBjKFOkOs2RWPfOv7bW9VK3Qh5pCe0YCbwhlDBXcsoWajAPpY63uk3bO7ow8t7QBrIrlVGbJl49GLameM3F7XaXBZfo0H9PKjmP8kUJssgZ4kfzbTsLwvRgsqd3ZQkNptiINHtskYH9ajPmxSZcSNLVyK9yYHJtiEy_-cCjOZ8SF/s4032/2F2C200A-AE67-4BE6-A132-C5B7B21DB90D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKRqMc3DpYZX3OBjKFOkOs2RWPfOv7bW9VK3Qh5pCe0YCbwhlDBXcsoWajAPpY63uk3bO7ow8t7QBrIrlVGbJl49GLameM3F7XaXBZfo0H9PKjmP8kUJssgZ4kfzbTsLwvRgsqd3ZQkNptiINHtskYH9ajPmxSZcSNLVyK9yYHJtiEy_-cCjOZ8SF/s320/2F2C200A-AE67-4BE6-A132-C5B7B21DB90D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This beautiful island is a great spot to go swimming, snorkelling or scuba diving, and there is plentiful marine life to see.<br /></div><br />Here is the jetty leading from the ferry to Green Island:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZUN29JqTS5vPrg99EfkLiynw4tAdMSAVzECRK4ojvVCgz3DbEDB4ywVr3u_kk8C5XNZ6FukyaGTcAgwl2r6HiUnQPGAJ0ss_-9sMLHttjKvRMBDkubKE4-NtBCbq-8KUBY9fdjowtpP6lbJqMMwAeqIerrezn1_BgZUo_w0X1uSyPVDNeJnxxOMT/s4032/4D7E1E01-CFDA-405F-8964-EA40D6792245.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZUN29JqTS5vPrg99EfkLiynw4tAdMSAVzECRK4ojvVCgz3DbEDB4ywVr3u_kk8C5XNZ6FukyaGTcAgwl2r6HiUnQPGAJ0ss_-9sMLHttjKvRMBDkubKE4-NtBCbq-8KUBY9fdjowtpP6lbJqMMwAeqIerrezn1_BgZUo_w0X1uSyPVDNeJnxxOMT/s320/4D7E1E01-CFDA-405F-8964-EA40D6792245.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My Mum and I aren't much for adventure activities, so we took a ride on the glass bottomed boat instead to see the marine life. Here are some shots of the fish and coral that we saw on the boat:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRXD4cmInegErl5H34k0okrCbcRILqDFwLZw1lwwE6NnqCxK1g3_0e0BDOOgLPOjPXO2eNJhj0r9Iq702-7iyZB3FyqPRbEK3BNlm83TKQpXb9mohJJFi-bck1fmxiGQMcGBedEUBnjNc4wzJHzs7JOh1JDR48t4H1Hi9JGz8HuYNkXMnTZrbH_mf/s4030/0C07EB60-3551-42EB-A232-F1101264C41E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2588" data-original-width="4030" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRXD4cmInegErl5H34k0okrCbcRILqDFwLZw1lwwE6NnqCxK1g3_0e0BDOOgLPOjPXO2eNJhj0r9Iq702-7iyZB3FyqPRbEK3BNlm83TKQpXb9mohJJFi-bck1fmxiGQMcGBedEUBnjNc4wzJHzs7JOh1JDR48t4H1Hi9JGz8HuYNkXMnTZrbH_mf/s320/0C07EB60-3551-42EB-A232-F1101264C41E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxNZVuqXyR3a8V3xG9z7W0iMOC7bnhb4i9vDoR7ZOd3SBDyoVR7zLgXNhtd4qF3c4gXv42nNeIUTRsjl3Teljouir_6WpgfTFyAMxiy-iyEekLTRV1xhp-CvLnrjvafnZSglT0z-98L6Pnn_7h1hY04cCGtjRx1BW4JIs4z7brFzehKJptP1WoNSZB/s320/5F7E62C1-9607-4626-B7B0-7F7977E443CC.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This is a school group snorkelling off Green Island:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIcbOpTljVtS4sMFlWDk0iNnNGxUCyuLHXAkIoRb6-0lPyJkNAveSYs_UjwO-c68yJbTuaH4nZzSw23a5PcoInZt8xwQDxU4LMZmZqVwPcZ3Pp7ErahQykC3t_4sbmD2Pncas5qdZM1C875qQWR9NKK6cPWeUt91lTbGncv37iE8NwcAyYtboOG0-/s4032/8E8C6A2F-0A05-4CDF-AA75-67F8CEA01659.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIcbOpTljVtS4sMFlWDk0iNnNGxUCyuLHXAkIoRb6-0lPyJkNAveSYs_UjwO-c68yJbTuaH4nZzSw23a5PcoInZt8xwQDxU4LMZmZqVwPcZ3Pp7ErahQykC3t_4sbmD2Pncas5qdZM1C875qQWR9NKK6cPWeUt91lTbGncv37iE8NwcAyYtboOG0-/s320/8E8C6A2F-0A05-4CDF-AA75-67F8CEA01659.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back onshore, there were plenty of these cheeky birds ready to pounce on any food that became available:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjjQZOrmovXxZUln2cwk4tMLEXdhsLns6ZneiFMFb1i0sH7cG8TFQPSuJiNmljVJ_lZyDVHqp7KfZpRitlvMiiEyIqJPj5saEgEoy7G90S2-MXl9T5zZU6tLmgUJ9jc6wdb2Vhd4Eus6f0znOlNtQJcuWiIVbwfDKYyUeE7hs9pq0bE2Czic0LkWy/s4032/DE4C4F13-A0DB-457C-A22D-A0CE97479A67.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjjQZOrmovXxZUln2cwk4tMLEXdhsLns6ZneiFMFb1i0sH7cG8TFQPSuJiNmljVJ_lZyDVHqp7KfZpRitlvMiiEyIqJPj5saEgEoy7G90S2-MXl9T5zZU6tLmgUJ9jc6wdb2Vhd4Eus6f0znOlNtQJcuWiIVbwfDKYyUeE7hs9pq0bE2Czic0LkWy/s320/DE4C4F13-A0DB-457C-A22D-A0CE97479A67.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of these birds jumped up and took my mother's sandwich out of her hands, not once but twice!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you don't swim or snorkel or bush walk, there is not much to do on Green Island. Most people use it as a base to go diving further afield on the Great Barrier Reef. You can stay at the Island hotel if you fancy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My mother's father visited Green Island back in the 1930s, and she has photographs of him walking on the jetty at Green Island. I wanted to capture Mum doing the same nearly 90 years later, so here she is:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DdMevYNe7D4oRncagJGBMsryRcTCQmNu_AXTX8fGnY1e4Bsh5bqPVryXsIUO5-TQdmZ7lQFLIQHvU6M_dTH_kWMlmQ1OGnSBdD8vgkKmXBAWiU2ruV3OD-IQjMXlGQH1Ty7npA6BEUJD2Fb9dRKxuy77eizUY5zCdy5LKUChFg54TIO3wvZ2aGla1-U/s4032/Mum%20on%20Green%20Island.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DdMevYNe7D4oRncagJGBMsryRcTCQmNu_AXTX8fGnY1e4Bsh5bqPVryXsIUO5-TQdmZ7lQFLIQHvU6M_dTH_kWMlmQ1OGnSBdD8vgkKmXBAWiU2ruV3OD-IQjMXlGQH1Ty7npA6BEUJD2Fb9dRKxuy77eizUY5zCdy5LKUChFg54TIO3wvZ2aGla1-U/w240-h320/Mum%20on%20Green%20Island.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's Mum and I on the glass bottomed boat:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixfUCw2YoahQIK2Yw93qqbirWLgDav4DGvfR2zmKbf8PsEdhcMGOqT632u9eIArMzX3frZSCb0XKABNf3Bwny0Ws7nZoCACYn5syowbbgxfwfYitXD3du-vgDOpzRXaBoZXCyKGc23oyA5Ef_DU0hl9W0_6XETVRqmn4OxOmGIAzJc1VTj8ldp080o/s3088/C2C23525-0319-40A9-8358-52D79E52C398.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixfUCw2YoahQIK2Yw93qqbirWLgDav4DGvfR2zmKbf8PsEdhcMGOqT632u9eIArMzX3frZSCb0XKABNf3Bwny0Ws7nZoCACYn5syowbbgxfwfYitXD3du-vgDOpzRXaBoZXCyKGc23oyA5Ef_DU0hl9W0_6XETVRqmn4OxOmGIAzJc1VTj8ldp080o/s320/C2C23525-0319-40A9-8358-52D79E52C398.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br />And to finish this post, here are some photos of my mother's father, Joe (who sadly passed away before I met him) walking with friends on the jetty at Green Island in the 1930s: </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzD9XQlITYKsvQI9nlNz1edLDZUcgVNOiUTtPmF2RZnFO2OuR-C5NcGE2KxVtYEnPkJMiKW9aAN-hP7xMrTwn4RR3aZ3FAJ8gIkShKlgdpW1h0Ge7frjLvEY7JB7nKNElmoy4KDGdTIyZ_FtnoWgFypRNTOSWj3DUzPcEUKeAXljDc8e1MlgpUAmR/s1280/9C55B0A8-AB7B-4C58-AAD0-EB04BDE09C18.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="792" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzD9XQlITYKsvQI9nlNz1edLDZUcgVNOiUTtPmF2RZnFO2OuR-C5NcGE2KxVtYEnPkJMiKW9aAN-hP7xMrTwn4RR3aZ3FAJ8gIkShKlgdpW1h0Ge7frjLvEY7JB7nKNElmoy4KDGdTIyZ_FtnoWgFypRNTOSWj3DUzPcEUKeAXljDc8e1MlgpUAmR/s320/9C55B0A8-AB7B-4C58-AAD0-EB04BDE09C18.jpeg" width="198" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht32OJW5irqRWNb2WHfZCbkaxrWh1RJlvi5n6bE1yIuJ9Fn_vqdZ1mip04NvA3cnqudfuxrdLbYjN_fSsvNlP__WoIV_sAxkE9JtGWMEkhW7_nEqgaejR0Go3F2gqvmj8qpcGso6usCQhqyW5zy_MLD2cvM04o6b5dqsBX_T0FV6yedjiOiqOBw3N7/s1280/98DE565A-816D-4A16-B1E3-4D90C55AFDBB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4IZmPnAp1Aol8_j0oI4sMSNHJDNgLvz3dIepAAsuF-DLoc_T1eACPpH_x8dcaG0o3e41gaTE_6ydk1HK-_PDzsEmcQC5GYhdmbyiWJKBkQTy8wAkP4DjHUV49HOiz08zqqmq8LQW2jhPKuBQJstSKpdEUFcpHEbYF4cYLXU0E_wG_1Oa-oj8Mwk5/s320/CB03B7AA-63BD-4F97-9BAE-A868E60B6FCB.jpeg" width="252" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7C49HCftra3JrDzTL00Fc2hDKJLUQfT9csJ5ExaFNo95cOc6UBlAfiIyTK3TKnaGBXfa0ScZjc3_YMH1UDTw8sE6FuNDbTZBvjQELFFkWoCfOmb4GI4YXOG88OpH6j-u4-0VV28XPPtiu_xin8qmjd2EVpYzZvtTaUvxBIMkDv37B1X7MREP_Qzw9/s640/EE486E67-F1AA-44DA-BFEA-FE3B84CC1CB9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="496" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7C49HCftra3JrDzTL00Fc2hDKJLUQfT9csJ5ExaFNo95cOc6UBlAfiIyTK3TKnaGBXfa0ScZjc3_YMH1UDTw8sE6FuNDbTZBvjQELFFkWoCfOmb4GI4YXOG88OpH6j-u4-0VV28XPPtiu_xin8qmjd2EVpYzZvtTaUvxBIMkDv37B1X7MREP_Qzw9/s320/EE486E67-F1AA-44DA-BFEA-FE3B84CC1CB9.jpeg" width="248" /></a></div><br /></div>It sounds very grand! Those were the days.<br /><p>As it happens, the <a href="http://ssmaritime.com/Kanimbla-Oriental-Queen.htm">MV Kanimbla</a> was a very famous ship which served as a passenger vessel between 1936 and 1939, became a war ship during WW2, and then converted to a passenger ship again before it was scrapped in 1973. I feel very chuffed that my dapper grandfather was once a passenger on this grand dame of the seas.</p></div>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-67660931221732568062020-09-18T12:00:00.104-07:002020-09-18T12:00:05.782-07:00Wellington, New Zealand<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7zN4e9WqhZa3T-ezXXzY4YkL3saGFtYoBy9oQCCLRLJRH4CouZ1jfJdySrEXtxrlUSEXJVyCSf0RjfkK2kru8pAKurQnpXFnnYFmSvG4U0KT6QlnQ8yS5QMaJjlPkseFhzcHQ_BdtCY/s2048/IMG_2290.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7zN4e9WqhZa3T-ezXXzY4YkL3saGFtYoBy9oQCCLRLJRH4CouZ1jfJdySrEXtxrlUSEXJVyCSf0RjfkK2kru8pAKurQnpXFnnYFmSvG4U0KT6QlnQ8yS5QMaJjlPkseFhzcHQ_BdtCY/w640-h480/IMG_2290.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">From Napier, we wisely skipped the Intercity bus and flew to Wellington, primarily because we could not have got there in time if we took the bus. However, given our hairy trip from Rotorua to Napier, this was a good option, regardless.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">When I went to Wellington by myself 10 years before, I had an amazing time, as I did a city tour, visited two fancy restaurants (<a href="http://kitchenlaw.blogspot.com/2008/03/spectacular-seafood-martin-bosleys.html">Martin Bosley's Yacht Club Restaurant</a>, now closed and <a href="http://kitchenlaw.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-delicious-dining-french-cafe.html">The French Cafe</a>, still open), checked out Cuba Street, shopped in the famous but now closed <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/75934818/end-of-an-era-for-wellington-as-kirkcaldie--stains-closes-its-doors-for-good">Kircaldie and Stains department store</a>, visited the Maori museum, <a href="https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/">Te Papa</a>, and went to<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.14px;"> </span>a Split Enz concert. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Fast forward to the trip with my family, well - they were not very adventurous and we hardly went past the doors of our downtown hotel. I did get them to take the <a href="https://www.wellingtoncablecar.co.nz/">Wellington Cable Car</a> to the Wellington Botanic Gardens:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnFyLpclvtqBfSNe-Ko6k-QFZfCr4r2WtOWpkVt-WdPcP2TFIZmkItvXcN1WZ1b5vKQ-nxnn9vGiBnUBALif6HwvQsak9wLNx65zFaEPz-iqrWLPOFq8cj0vRZPA2egi3CHBERQbapes/s2048/IMG_2298.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnFyLpclvtqBfSNe-Ko6k-QFZfCr4r2WtOWpkVt-WdPcP2TFIZmkItvXcN1WZ1b5vKQ-nxnn9vGiBnUBALif6HwvQsak9wLNx65zFaEPz-iqrWLPOFq8cj0vRZPA2egi3CHBERQbapes/w640-h480/IMG_2298.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Wellington, as well as being windy, is quite hilly, so you get magnificent views of the city from the botanic gardens:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zhed8GJXBelj6hoIKzG_ymMicEYaTDZRwMjL4RkeQmmJO3GrIvB1KbmOENhJZLPeW7uQVpOtoG5tcRa7d7qmMZFausxP2nN7L6BwHqabGRlS1ECYb3prpsn286vp8xrRRNe3OSkGRyM/s2048/IMG_2292.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zhed8GJXBelj6hoIKzG_ymMicEYaTDZRwMjL4RkeQmmJO3GrIvB1KbmOENhJZLPeW7uQVpOtoG5tcRa7d7qmMZFausxP2nN7L6BwHqabGRlS1ECYb3prpsn286vp8xrRRNe3OSkGRyM/w640-h480/IMG_2292.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It is quite fascinating to look at the various displays on perfume making, and you can do courses on perfume making as well as buying perfume there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My family was utterly bored by all of this and didn't fancy a stroll through the gardens, so we left on the next cable car going back to town. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are a few snapshots of things I found interesting in and around our hotel in Wellington:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhu6q3RykKOUiHaN9MHijgfwcYBWwlJrGW3YNUjbCF-c0D4cWPgE3GW-5KKIwPzOw61ZKfxFsTGSGi7ejcfaV905EURElG4uGKseFazy0nkOI3MbgMvUQKsSZMma8E7ACo-V6pWzblEZo/s2048/IMG_2303.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhu6q3RykKOUiHaN9MHijgfwcYBWwlJrGW3YNUjbCF-c0D4cWPgE3GW-5KKIwPzOw61ZKfxFsTGSGi7ejcfaV905EURElG4uGKseFazy0nkOI3MbgMvUQKsSZMma8E7ACo-V6pWzblEZo/w640-h480/IMG_2303.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">One day I might get around to uploading my photos from my first visit to Wellington so that you can see a little more of what the capital of New Zealand has to offer. However, this is all I have to show you from this trip. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I love New Zealand as a travel destination, and would definitely go back again when I can. In the meantime, I leave you with the message on this gorgeous greeting card featuring a fantail that I found in a gift shop in Wellington:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECOX8Xyt_0BhCjcs4Z0o0l3F5yey-G7me8X9nQp71-FpY6Liy-26HCvxjgs7ZwX5k5NolgYngtVyrB-Bo8n22T8vbhRM6M-xFCuZZzCHIxAiowNXCt0GhnLwpoIa24CGjcp3tNzfW9UA/s2048/IMG_2329.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECOX8Xyt_0BhCjcs4Z0o0l3F5yey-G7me8X9nQp71-FpY6Liy-26HCvxjgs7ZwX5k5NolgYngtVyrB-Bo8n22T8vbhRM6M-xFCuZZzCHIxAiowNXCt0GhnLwpoIa24CGjcp3tNzfW9UA/w480-h640/IMG_2329.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wellington Cable Car</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">280 Lambton Quay</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wellington New Zealand</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 4 472 2199</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fragifert Parfumeur</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1 Upland Road Kelburn</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wellington New Zealand</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 27 607 1852</span></div>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-67764565908566386022020-09-16T12:00:00.001-07:002020-09-16T12:00:03.733-07:00Mission Estate Winery, Napier <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyGGo-ZX_UpULl9vpIGXLkKh_941TwhROQeaoxOae9HlvfmuYCWgMQnr-qCtov772VxpFXKSjcnl8n3YtVOVycfJYI5pozKdOTLrDQgegXJB9_JTyE2-jGDLx3mmYbBBY2rzMJvVyOGg/s5152/IMG_6611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyGGo-ZX_UpULl9vpIGXLkKh_941TwhROQeaoxOae9HlvfmuYCWgMQnr-qCtov772VxpFXKSjcnl8n3YtVOVycfJYI5pozKdOTLrDQgegXJB9_JTyE2-jGDLx3mmYbBBY2rzMJvVyOGg/w640-h480/IMG_6611.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As part of our Art Deco tour in Napier, we were taken to Mission Estate Winery, just outside Napier. Mission Estate Winery was established in a grand property established by French missionaries in 1851.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We didn't buy any wines but I enjoyed looking around this grand estate: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaSWBmrk4rB3mW8l4diywH_mRxvYtOicSWyCklMAX2KDvDYodXZk_3mAKj6ngq76t7gRNOzsEt-D70FJ4drdMcWt750cwevLHU_mAEcShqbA_Clp2WN8UrSaEkTb6S0TScbSuynC4lHoI/s5152/IMG_6607.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaSWBmrk4rB3mW8l4diywH_mRxvYtOicSWyCklMAX2KDvDYodXZk_3mAKj6ngq76t7gRNOzsEt-D70FJ4drdMcWt750cwevLHU_mAEcShqbA_Clp2WN8UrSaEkTb6S0TScbSuynC4lHoI/w640-h480/IMG_6607.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhoSAiPhMUblY_BFEOOT7LvqkqTzL-JgFtYh-RRK5JL3oz4KShj7idLPe5vaAqNiM-SBJTxHcfGrER0LkZTRg-1svrjleChiwdWFW9NXjZjh4Ceg1TsS8H6lvVuj-QDdEV7syx4Ga-vkM/s5152/IMG_6617.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhoSAiPhMUblY_BFEOOT7LvqkqTzL-JgFtYh-RRK5JL3oz4KShj7idLPe5vaAqNiM-SBJTxHcfGrER0LkZTRg-1svrjleChiwdWFW9NXjZjh4Ceg1TsS8H6lvVuj-QDdEV7syx4Ga-vkM/w480-h640/IMG_6617.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://missionestate.co.nz/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mission Estate Winery</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">198 Church Road</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Napier NZ</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 6845 9353</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-54211187014597867792020-09-15T21:52:00.005-07:002020-09-16T18:00:36.693-07:00Art Deco Napier, New Zealand<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqLgdYgnIzfn5cmpm1QmZdM_r1dcOXoUendBbvb5GjAVUoBL8YZICX2HR723hh49e6Q1lfoH_qYlQn3-J7e-L9jxJEWQzl-hu30D0mMVH1je6ARp8-nyTi9DpoDWJzIlEGrMsTDWfHKDM/s5152/IMG_6598.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqLgdYgnIzfn5cmpm1QmZdM_r1dcOXoUendBbvb5GjAVUoBL8YZICX2HR723hh49e6Q1lfoH_qYlQn3-J7e-L9jxJEWQzl-hu30D0mMVH1je6ARp8-nyTi9DpoDWJzIlEGrMsTDWfHKDM/w640-h480/IMG_6598.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our next stop in New Zealand after Rotorua was Napier, a town which is famous for having been rebuilt in Art Deco style in the 1930s following the destruction of many of its buildings in an earthquake. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our trip via Intercity bus to Napier was rather eventful. Hawkes Bay, where Napier is located, suffered torrential rain at the time, and there were landslides across the mountainous roads that blocked all traffic. We just made it before the road became impassable due to a landslide. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When we arrived in Napier, I expected our accommodation to be in town, walking distance from the bus stop. Unfortunately, it seemed that our travel agent had lost the plot, and booked us at a motor inn miles out of town on the freeway.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It gets even better - when we arrived at said accommodation, we were told that we did not have a booking. It appears that between us booking the holiday and taking it, the business that ran the motor inn had been sold, and the sellers neglected to pass on the existing bookings to the new owners. The new owner did not want us to call the travel agent (presumably because it would jeopardise his future bookings), and pulled a favour from a friend at another motor inn (slightly closer to town but still quite a hike), who kindly agreed to put us up on a moment's notice.We could have stayed in a lovely Art Deco house, but the owner told us it was very cold and hard to heat, so we opted for the more conventional motor inn brick box - no frills but it was a roof over our head. The owners were just lovely, a British couple who had migrated from the UK. However, the travel agent's initial madness meant that we were stuck a fair hike out of town without a car, and my mum can't walk far. This drama all took place on my mother's birthday, so the dreadful weather, combined with the accommodation debacle, made for a very unhappy mother on her birthday. I had planned to take her to a nice restaurant for her milestone birthday, but that was also off the cards, so we glumly ate takeaway Chinese out of plastic containers that night. Sorry Mum.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Personal dramas aside, Napier is an interesting place to visit because of its Art Deco roots. Much of the town has embraced the Art Deco connection. Behold this fabulous bus shelter, decorated with Art Deco inspired murals:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw4rsfmB6JRlvIteuEGBSFJ7CB9dFFTr81CfH1EE4ZrSSDkO4BwPEex87D2vPLKDfkCX2ZS1b97wLL97q4fr3Jv6kIkAfle4mvO7klIC6JfQ206nawcWile92mLmdYYYoQ3E5DrTKGmh8/s5152/IMG_6637.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw4rsfmB6JRlvIteuEGBSFJ7CB9dFFTr81CfH1EE4ZrSSDkO4BwPEex87D2vPLKDfkCX2ZS1b97wLL97q4fr3Jv6kIkAfle4mvO7klIC6JfQ206nawcWile92mLmdYYYoQ3E5DrTKGmh8/w640-h480/IMG_6637.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgzk3_LvaB60ukdupLmZoeSCzQXypEaKwapzBu2thUgyC2_6e3k-e_EWmW55HgD1CUJ9GZp_Tq50h_IGtdW4yPHmWadIcHPppTJo4S9Yb8k2YiXrv03xdaVFIQfiVpT81xL2VK_CPUak/s5152/IMG_6638.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_2K0sUUx4MlrUUy5dXyVBU__6gFYlHl7n7mwKW1caAK1Ao7tbNhp5NEeK_C2N7UjByRYcnBL8M00ZrsYUtXi-NHBs_FQfr9p1QaGB_A0mEbge2BROAoQSWREJ-H-V7HoYhUP4gFvzV0/s5152/IMG_6642.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_2K0sUUx4MlrUUy5dXyVBU__6gFYlHl7n7mwKW1caAK1Ao7tbNhp5NEeK_C2N7UjByRYcnBL8M00ZrsYUtXi-NHBs_FQfr9p1QaGB_A0mEbge2BROAoQSWREJ-H-V7HoYhUP4gFvzV0/w640-h480/IMG_6642.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilU8b7CwUWCkEz8TaHLKdW0Mf2tKrLlZOrCZ1x_P4rl6uPtTS20j1LYTtGEqP8be6yOvFA2qnNnm8_VPP1RZ6KGoTib2c_FGJAjsWxzSzsRBKwxNyrSEacn2DnSfkJ0VoYZ_Cb9y_KoZ8/s5152/IMG_6643.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilU8b7CwUWCkEz8TaHLKdW0Mf2tKrLlZOrCZ1x_P4rl6uPtTS20j1LYTtGEqP8be6yOvFA2qnNnm8_VPP1RZ6KGoTib2c_FGJAjsWxzSzsRBKwxNyrSEacn2DnSfkJ0VoYZ_Cb9y_KoZ8/w640-h480/IMG_6643.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Many of the buildings in town are from the Art Deco era - here's a happy snap of the nearest Art Deco building we found on the day of arrival:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXBTBFV_BPkCvLjICqT9prW_If0MUtri___ekoqw_RzTltOO28HOtMwuMVI9LLb6UPrMQtBesL-ZyV2PkCSOSOPf628BrW3505l3h49yhU3Z9xknAGBr2QJt3uOurYRSDR-grDBMvREw/s2048/IMG_2244.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXBTBFV_BPkCvLjICqT9prW_If0MUtri___ekoqw_RzTltOO28HOtMwuMVI9LLb6UPrMQtBesL-ZyV2PkCSOSOPf628BrW3505l3h49yhU3Z9xknAGBr2QJt3uOurYRSDR-grDBMvREw/w640-h480/IMG_2244.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">There are many Art Deco houses in Napier:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKeJeJymivB_lImp8OiV_NeWP9sLb8lL1ex9P5OLa0U24aXEGmMxFRgtc6UghDhqD3jpmk0mvXaVvPHkyANgw7tJMYoY_S-hvRIOSVyV_60TVKVLiVaFtbFn1b8S6coGoaj_E76VTGrUE/s5152/IMG_6619.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKeJeJymivB_lImp8OiV_NeWP9sLb8lL1ex9P5OLa0U24aXEGmMxFRgtc6UghDhqD3jpmk0mvXaVvPHkyANgw7tJMYoY_S-hvRIOSVyV_60TVKVLiVaFtbFn1b8S6coGoaj_E76VTGrUE/w640-h480/IMG_6619.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOVC1SYOsvSqjvK5LMYK0l6OYkSAQM40NXADBvscrPxFgqUoN8AUKSUxC01EilqR3kBiUUUxXClHglTy5hYZjLarP5BwvV6z6y4V7Uzz_mOrNO0UMgnq-SoGaXIoTAjAopfA1cCxJGjDM/w640-h480/IMG_6622.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">However, unless you do a lot of research and know what and where to look, you will miss many of the Art Deco treasures. For that reason, we did a half day Napier Art Deco Tour with <a href="https://www.hbscenictours.co.nz/napier-art-deco-tour/">Hawkes Bay Scenic Tours</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the grandest examples of Art Deco architecture in Napier is not in the main part of town at all. It is the <a href="https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/national-tobacco-company-building">National Tobacco Company building</a>: </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPsPcq9dfxnjgk3s6gNejLCdKUX3H3h2_hWb1lSpejaZeQEy3MYMoFzhHu4zVI_z4E0gUUIvTmWd4Re6pDCPBBrbNBSPhtQ5KW9rgBjCaj9tcdZRMenyk-9mz9HyY3Y6z2q0cZ8z2YVis/s5152/IMG_6598.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPsPcq9dfxnjgk3s6gNejLCdKUX3H3h2_hWb1lSpejaZeQEy3MYMoFzhHu4zVI_z4E0gUUIvTmWd4Re6pDCPBBrbNBSPhtQ5KW9rgBjCaj9tcdZRMenyk-9mz9HyY3Y6z2q0cZ8z2YVis/w640-h480/IMG_6598.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">From the outside, this building is a stunning example of Art Deco architecture. You can't go in, and the inside seems to be mainly a shell, but the very grand exterior of this building is well worth seeking out for look.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The tour also covered various Art Deco houses in the back streets of Napier, including the ones above and these:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3w4ne_pTWESRCXP79_oKQUAjg34JlxvZtUxauFJvjdKG5ocLhBRNbing6APL7enYJZvvX1MP2rhh5Qr6FWWf86se7pL8nTr4sSpWVvur6R01vsGqvZOD4isBvFz5WgtWU5Qpe_bAUfE/s5152/IMG_6626.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3w4ne_pTWESRCXP79_oKQUAjg34JlxvZtUxauFJvjdKG5ocLhBRNbing6APL7enYJZvvX1MP2rhh5Qr6FWWf86se7pL8nTr4sSpWVvur6R01vsGqvZOD4isBvFz5WgtWU5Qpe_bAUfE/w640-h480/IMG_6626.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHr2AOC1zcz7N7cgyCgHWz8vBjWcDxrpmAZaBU0zLSkbC0b5XZ3zWcT-74etVjrpJ-_Q6onNFvehytWdKV6GMp1-W9ZyV2okdJDHwoT2eS_xwqpoNW820uKbDqLvFn60jHfC30pvgu0M/s5152/IMG_6627.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHr2AOC1zcz7N7cgyCgHWz8vBjWcDxrpmAZaBU0zLSkbC0b5XZ3zWcT-74etVjrpJ-_Q6onNFvehytWdKV6GMp1-W9ZyV2okdJDHwoT2eS_xwqpoNW820uKbDqLvFn60jHfC30pvgu0M/w640-h480/IMG_6627.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is an example of Art Deco architecture taken randomly from the tour bus, which is now a restaurant: </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzVcdKYr186KOMS-f8X7KumTcgw7r8jvGDXa898tL1A62hjWIzqiNfSHu7Ho4MwAX51D4cQ_ZDVaH8s0zys3OHpX331Ra3UJt8sMYg_7tFVSCozjLRuJXBfRc3Rhb4gfa73sE88WB4sUY/s5152/IMG_6628.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzVcdKYr186KOMS-f8X7KumTcgw7r8jvGDXa898tL1A62hjWIzqiNfSHu7Ho4MwAX51D4cQ_ZDVaH8s0zys3OHpX331Ra3UJt8sMYg_7tFVSCozjLRuJXBfRc3Rhb4gfa73sE88WB4sUY/w640-h480/IMG_6628.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Art Deco tour will show you where to find the Art Deco treasures in Napier; however, it is only 2.5 hours and is mainly done by bus, so I recommend going back yourself afterwards to see the places that you are shown on the tour at leisure, and to take photographs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are the photos of Art Deco and other interesting architecture in Napier, together with Art Deco inspired art works, that I took when I went back into town after the tour. Enjoy!!</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigk2LtRo3fR73SncSM3XqIsQKnIUVfmK2TnUtJXZDjW2GcILO31HO5u52Oz5peOLR0ruvUgnQqt_OzAhNfPirxsUJGcOK8vu1PudpxnQYGGwS2fkEDHSVvnAXqSXNxUw4W-vNMbQQu1oI/s5152/IMG_6630.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigk2LtRo3fR73SncSM3XqIsQKnIUVfmK2TnUtJXZDjW2GcILO31HO5u52Oz5peOLR0ruvUgnQqt_OzAhNfPirxsUJGcOK8vu1PudpxnQYGGwS2fkEDHSVvnAXqSXNxUw4W-vNMbQQu1oI/w640-h480/IMG_6630.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhME6V3ZD44Fv6v8ugGY_TiokK2oMEtlPjhMDB-UIUy6tE4tIt6NuN6_qglavp7EwJQFhdMnkbiChfls7UKWqaClE74wFM4Y3epqix67LjGfBMRHLh0TsM5ZFNGFWogYBKeyKJrm4U200E/s5152/IMG_6631.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5MrSp-PvTvLB_8wTeGl3bF-uzt1qFRKpsMdAVZRw7ZhS23oEpMyCISuhAyTaYOstXtKoA3RQilb4x-OunCVvZe3BHNNrPA5dH85Nx1iovfQqalLnhD1W6oGBAxwuqt_paLDh2KMC_dB8/s5152/IMG_6670.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5MrSp-PvTvLB_8wTeGl3bF-uzt1qFRKpsMdAVZRw7ZhS23oEpMyCISuhAyTaYOstXtKoA3RQilb4x-OunCVvZe3BHNNrPA5dH85Nx1iovfQqalLnhD1W6oGBAxwuqt_paLDh2KMC_dB8/w640-h480/IMG_6670.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ387UD2rkbCB50H38qqZskD0Yw_5mLkKi3L0K7TzlIMSfOZquzP9-FzawTnwS8AGP11ds1QFSM1x_dWwQuJA5qZJOs39CU1h7U0OaotVW3K1vUfvKpTmwJKVuAQxN1h0Ut218JmnQ_08/s5152/IMG_6671.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ387UD2rkbCB50H38qqZskD0Yw_5mLkKi3L0K7TzlIMSfOZquzP9-FzawTnwS8AGP11ds1QFSM1x_dWwQuJA5qZJOs39CU1h7U0OaotVW3K1vUfvKpTmwJKVuAQxN1h0Ut218JmnQ_08/w640-h480/IMG_6671.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Although not Art Deco, here is one of my favourite Napier landmarks, The Six Sisters, along Marine Parade:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5HIpsxJKIJiFUGKSN7AmjS3sVi9gqpBq153KJn6f6AM4dGnyEBeHq110X6cGo47Mn-Kgvyuhjf8_lTnN2TPE2nZA2whSf_6E7zUGW3vdxnvndMOlrzbou8oPiZyxpYbw6uQn3nRNi44/s5152/IMG_6672.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5HIpsxJKIJiFUGKSN7AmjS3sVi9gqpBq153KJn6f6AM4dGnyEBeHq110X6cGo47Mn-Kgvyuhjf8_lTnN2TPE2nZA2whSf_6E7zUGW3vdxnvndMOlrzbou8oPiZyxpYbw6uQn3nRNi44/w640-h480/IMG_6672.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The story behind the "sisters" is that an architect built one identical house for each of his six daughters during the Victorian era, and the houses survived the earthquake in the 1930s. All kinds of business now occupy the houses today, including The Six Sisters Coffee House:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5STWsIpsOVQDt54AiSSO_PrpRQHe3nw2g_xpEbK_70DtbIhDQaSoOD0UM5-vUlUkNrVnMzOmEg-92Soe3IiC9evtMnvzX5tdN7-BC4V73_P2_xV-aFIbbEuOGmrGkz9c9Fr0QGadPXX8/s5152/IMG_6673.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5STWsIpsOVQDt54AiSSO_PrpRQHe3nw2g_xpEbK_70DtbIhDQaSoOD0UM5-vUlUkNrVnMzOmEg-92Soe3IiC9evtMnvzX5tdN7-BC4V73_P2_xV-aFIbbEuOGmrGkz9c9Fr0QGadPXX8/w480-h640/IMG_6673.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Marine Parade features the Ecliptic Millenial Arch, which lines up with the place where the sun rose on the first day of the new millenium:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE23tV8Fl4NgbHzE2xdc7-xZc29MoCl3pQRvUm-Udp7uuFhgzCIpiIB3062kyvVBbxLCF-T9RXTkKzUgwuxY5SNgIuppOfKDNbBIjQ7VqUsXrrVHbfwME4y3QR9nQZr4ZLyqdGddvyTxE/w480-h640/IMG_6584.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Going back into town, here are some more examples of the Napier Art Deco and Art Deco inspired architecture and art:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyAlxLxy2kSHr8plf8Zj56hrlPdq7Lde91JTORpUduSneQbFk7IWy7eMrIn9hcsxdHhkLGLEeBEHYqLf8Q3XSjEDUdIGT2lxqrZKdvi5EEPdde-T58pVf8L3V1jRIuywtbfTl-A8myaM/s5152/IMG_6674.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyAlxLxy2kSHr8plf8Zj56hrlPdq7Lde91JTORpUduSneQbFk7IWy7eMrIn9hcsxdHhkLGLEeBEHYqLf8Q3XSjEDUdIGT2lxqrZKdvi5EEPdde-T58pVf8L3V1jRIuywtbfTl-A8myaM/w480-h640/IMG_6674.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2w7RejZ62r1d_1aIIOy3b-ACF_b394lmnc7YPNEcuz2g1LvORgP1cCx4WLsgqAnh183W_j8xHs4PAaUjkJ3bQxXuEfq4KVhUGMS81ftCYDVzbmldIvIAD1ZexfnxIyaRoLBIGNDnVBlg/s5152/IMG_6679.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2w7RejZ62r1d_1aIIOy3b-ACF_b394lmnc7YPNEcuz2g1LvORgP1cCx4WLsgqAnh183W_j8xHs4PAaUjkJ3bQxXuEfq4KVhUGMS81ftCYDVzbmldIvIAD1ZexfnxIyaRoLBIGNDnVBlg/w480-h640/IMG_6679.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69vhz5TRaFFOt29_TY9gVY4axiPL8k11-JLdgQWFQWCMVvGsGKLEIh9hfopwTEEcTuozXTZlg1oeljlNVoJbu4rx6q3BAskkn9Hv1l0mM8e1uv2Syjgq2kGTiOP8i4xt854G5JMkop68/s5152/IMG_6680.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69vhz5TRaFFOt29_TY9gVY4axiPL8k11-JLdgQWFQWCMVvGsGKLEIh9hfopwTEEcTuozXTZlg1oeljlNVoJbu4rx6q3BAskkn9Hv1l0mM8e1uv2Syjgq2kGTiOP8i4xt854G5JMkop68/w640-h480/IMG_6680.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a bronze sculpture of <a href="https://www.hawkesbaynz.com/see-and-do/art-design-and-culture/the-art-deco-guide/a-wave-in-time-the-story-of-sheila-williams/">Sheila Williams</a>, Carnival Queen of 1933, with a popular symbol in Art Deco times, the greyhound:</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGUYa56OQ5tGMhyhSJGNdkBUQqWJjTUCbg0VlSnzi5Bt9_nunajulIVcLJLgbmVtVSYUg5aON5rhayP7bRJjui6z6rspAisgYmBYJ6gVVC6EasoOylxO5cYCiDLBpKAaZ28QyQtwrV9A/s5152/IMG_6681.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGUYa56OQ5tGMhyhSJGNdkBUQqWJjTUCbg0VlSnzi5Bt9_nunajulIVcLJLgbmVtVSYUg5aON5rhayP7bRJjui6z6rspAisgYmBYJ6gVVC6EasoOylxO5cYCiDLBpKAaZ28QyQtwrV9A/w480-h640/IMG_6681.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This later sculpture is a companion piece, and features a boy waving at Sheila:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMO_n6hTtfAQDTY__vQ-ZpplYTmpWKG1x-S8a6q6Wd6bmPzzpIaVjv8zjEOp3wNoTSiD9KKfL8AKj5saeu75-ZZk7aNxwnNP8IW3DeCxz4MR_cU_jp1twEZbWLdOj46dl16-BtyFH4B58/s5152/IMG_6685.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMO_n6hTtfAQDTY__vQ-ZpplYTmpWKG1x-S8a6q6Wd6bmPzzpIaVjv8zjEOp3wNoTSiD9KKfL8AKj5saeu75-ZZk7aNxwnNP8IW3DeCxz4MR_cU_jp1twEZbWLdOj46dl16-BtyFH4B58/w480-h640/IMG_6685.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Enjoy some more of Napier:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCfvJzFkIzQrxnAcvcoBAGIx7Afg3sanjSLmPQOv9hd74i_LD_K50Bg7KL1UfSMG5YPEEKZCucm88aY2d-i9-jdHAloEPtLivKy5vpaWw63ylYrTCUCjYNZImT7eozbjyX1HU3b2NxX9M/s5152/IMG_6706.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCfvJzFkIzQrxnAcvcoBAGIx7Afg3sanjSLmPQOv9hd74i_LD_K50Bg7KL1UfSMG5YPEEKZCucm88aY2d-i9-jdHAloEPtLivKy5vpaWw63ylYrTCUCjYNZImT7eozbjyX1HU3b2NxX9M/w640-h480/IMG_6706.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While my trip to Napier is not what I'd hoped due to the combination of the weather and the accommodation mess, I did enjoy getting to see first hand the Art Deco architecture which features heavily throughout the town.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.hbscenictours.co.nz/contact-and-bookings/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hawkes Bay Scenic Tours</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2 Neeve Place, Napier NZ 4112</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 6844 5693</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.artdeconapier.com/">Art Deco Trust</a><br />7 Tennyson St, Napier NZ<br />Ph: +64 6835 0022</span></p><p><br /></p></div>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-6707591721660141832020-09-10T21:06:00.000-07:002020-09-10T21:06:06.841-07:00Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland and Waimangu Volcanic Valley, Rotorua<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyO19X5HSg2LakvUdpuERdSp7gTyIPzOxoH2bTGZpjZBlW0SmP2GHZndstYDupQl4QbTZcE4jWeOPCzmFroCNAhXPRPf3Lo4WpYwBjbZzHNAMYy35bB6pNIv7xUzLYoF6x4ExBIV_6Y3M/s5152/IMG_6554.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyO19X5HSg2LakvUdpuERdSp7gTyIPzOxoH2bTGZpjZBlW0SmP2GHZndstYDupQl4QbTZcE4jWeOPCzmFroCNAhXPRPf3Lo4WpYwBjbZzHNAMYy35bB6pNIv7xUzLYoF6x4ExBIV_6Y3M/w640-h480/IMG_6554.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">While in Rotorua, it would be almost criminal not to check out what Rotorua is famous for - its thermal springs. If you have never been to Rotorua, you need to know that it has a permanent sulphurous smell (ie rotten egg gas) because of all the thermal activity in the surrounding area. The smell did not bother me and you soon get used to it, but it's a good thing to know before you arrive. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">We stayed at the Sudima Hotel, Lake Rotorua, where you can view thermal activity right outside your front door:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXmM8nIR1KnDL_AVYpEmg8lZ_NUHcRE9VXQoWxnvGBWiEHGV27jUPJ5HriL2gRnpxRunh5j_DPCmSlOP_pGCyhXYyTm1h9pZ-mqmjkgcUUTNUE9xOtIJvByp_PKYz1574JBF3eA5uADI/s5152/IMG_6527.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXmM8nIR1KnDL_AVYpEmg8lZ_NUHcRE9VXQoWxnvGBWiEHGV27jUPJ5HriL2gRnpxRunh5j_DPCmSlOP_pGCyhXYyTm1h9pZ-mqmjkgcUUTNUE9xOtIJvByp_PKYz1574JBF3eA5uADI/w640-h480/IMG_6527.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The Sudima Hotel accommodation is fairly basic, so if you are looking for 5 star accommodation, this is not it. However, if you want affordable accommodation close to the action, it could be the place for you. (The travel agent who booked this New Zealand trip seemed to think that we wanted budget all the way, because we were booked into some very interesting accommodation, especially in Napier - but that's another story.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Next door to the Sudima Hotel is the Polynesian Spa:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqFkKXRqZeyrnGFHGa-nw2gVj_n0sRsLS-As2lxThT_6EYmqhwtdUGfAqHZop2l0VFBv7mz206wACgHZaK1jCaXIPjR-7oimbYKDnaRoEi2AkltcyMIWX81gBTOh5VhxsJQw5GbTQAow/s5152/IMG_6580.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqFkKXRqZeyrnGFHGa-nw2gVj_n0sRsLS-As2lxThT_6EYmqhwtdUGfAqHZop2l0VFBv7mz206wACgHZaK1jCaXIPjR-7oimbYKDnaRoEi2AkltcyMIWX81gBTOh5VhxsJQw5GbTQAow/w640-h480/IMG_6580.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have ever wanted to bathe in thermal water, this is the place for you. At the time of our visit, you could rent a bathing costume (that's togs to me ;)) and a towel, but given the pandemic, I am not sure if this practice will continue. My family piked on going to the Polynesian Spa, even though they'd paid for it. I went because I had paid, and I rather enjoyed lolling about in the bath tub warm swimming pool. There were also mineral pools out the back, but I stayed in the main pool area.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">We also took the Eco-Thermal Morning Tour through Elite Adventures.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the first things we saw was some mud bubbling because of thermal activity. My mother was pleased because she was worried she wouldn't get to see any:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEwPHJH3UkaVKK612N-pPPy5exot-MHghpX29QirpII7HkuMfhhwQQDRAdTg4JOu1AslzlFZ7Ymk52mdF1PZxg9B7JpxmCUHv_XKr9ggLmP1kjsmFTiajMGnkTZ7pvHkf5CZ2DGE7MYw/s5152/IMG_6529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEwPHJH3UkaVKK612N-pPPy5exot-MHghpX29QirpII7HkuMfhhwQQDRAdTg4JOu1AslzlFZ7Ymk52mdF1PZxg9B7JpxmCUHv_XKr9ggLmP1kjsmFTiajMGnkTZ7pvHkf5CZ2DGE7MYw/w640-h480/IMG_6529.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Next stop was Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, where we got to see more bubbling mud, lots of different types of vegetation that thrives in thermal areas, and the varied geography formed by the thermal activity in the area:<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1xQcsZZtWw9Y8pSpEpkVBN9bqFzBIIFOAPrRILKNsfpjYP_z8A6P2nXfiWXOHFabTHO3ccl9xqkQGeHd7bt_14l_hDD5NlXCTFyFe1OyGKFTqIE1QhDFGW1d6326dCTyJN4TWiLXbhsg/s5152/IMG_6531.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1xQcsZZtWw9Y8pSpEpkVBN9bqFzBIIFOAPrRILKNsfpjYP_z8A6P2nXfiWXOHFabTHO3ccl9xqkQGeHd7bt_14l_hDD5NlXCTFyFe1OyGKFTqIE1QhDFGW1d6326dCTyJN4TWiLXbhsg/w480-h640/IMG_6531.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's a peek at the steam rising off the Devil's Bath - the whole park was steamy like this: </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zog-C4M0jW5Mgu7XmrnChIJccrgJ21e8rctCS6ZmFdkLvgh7Iuwnft26oKLvGUGcKTc6w8EnIyStEmcDRqdn9s9nGbGaLhV25uh_gKcIBV-_jkgZ6ZdD9Jyiypg0cPEe4OueIy78VpA/s5152/IMG_6535.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zog-C4M0jW5Mgu7XmrnChIJccrgJ21e8rctCS6ZmFdkLvgh7Iuwnft26oKLvGUGcKTc6w8EnIyStEmcDRqdn9s9nGbGaLhV25uh_gKcIBV-_jkgZ6ZdD9Jyiypg0cPEe4OueIy78VpA/w640-h480/IMG_6535.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the Devil's Lair, formed from a collapsed crater:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZq7Xt6DeI5edRQl-XstCcBOHyA5cGkQhbkL8wFwzmjGvUMR2o4lQ4eB2PntJeZSz0eaYDWwS-6tcswYZsCCVr2JSU44r8mWt9H1LfdYGb0Pkg_QBfFEtnh1fzFI15rChbF38k-j_SpoQ/s5152/IMG_6536.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZq7Xt6DeI5edRQl-XstCcBOHyA5cGkQhbkL8wFwzmjGvUMR2o4lQ4eB2PntJeZSz0eaYDWwS-6tcswYZsCCVr2JSU44r8mWt9H1LfdYGb0Pkg_QBfFEtnh1fzFI15rChbF38k-j_SpoQ/w640-h480/IMG_6536.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I believe this is the Rainbow Crater, so called because of the sulphur crystals and coloured minerals exposed in the clay walls:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN42l4pIi6BuY_TXk4hrUi6WE48Wc-lRee4VjApVuB7IGqe27kG1Zcenhq8BU2HmFTr65A8srG-jws8NZeuOPmtcdg4kSyA2bniBDNsgMQtVH4gQ6bkOHASHjkoSggtkbAn4hncp3pdck/s5152/IMG_6537.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN42l4pIi6BuY_TXk4hrUi6WE48Wc-lRee4VjApVuB7IGqe27kG1Zcenhq8BU2HmFTr65A8srG-jws8NZeuOPmtcdg4kSyA2bniBDNsgMQtVH4gQ6bkOHASHjkoSggtkbAn4hncp3pdck/w640-h480/IMG_6537.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLh6T2ULlJ1_ua-1oyc_GQ8yAaeW4cQ6wUFahc8eECMVelzQPrAzKJaIv5SFHU_Mjhr8x3Up_KmQ2tu7h4fVpPo-XmfO3huxCn5D22C3fv-viE2KqagqnFxfhai5jLT7jnCKXD4l7Eyw/s5152/IMG_6540.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLh6T2ULlJ1_ua-1oyc_GQ8yAaeW4cQ6wUFahc8eECMVelzQPrAzKJaIv5SFHU_Mjhr8x3Up_KmQ2tu7h4fVpPo-XmfO3huxCn5D22C3fv-viE2KqagqnFxfhai5jLT7jnCKXD4l7Eyw/w640-h480/IMG_6540.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the Artist's Palette and Champagne Pool, formed when water from the pool has overflowed and drawn out minerals from the earth:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMLt9X4OOjhyphenhyphenqJHmdtrV8I2iC6odG5KpPHUfoRpyzxuTLtJA2T6oPN7MnvBsLRJOBOP4Q2avRf6wFe1nfDJk1j2E6zwHvD7TAJ8v0dKClwoKztCOiMve5HnQQSsurRuW5bishOF1dyAM/s5152/IMG_6545.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMLt9X4OOjhyphenhyphenqJHmdtrV8I2iC6odG5KpPHUfoRpyzxuTLtJA2T6oPN7MnvBsLRJOBOP4Q2avRf6wFe1nfDJk1j2E6zwHvD7TAJ8v0dKClwoKztCOiMve5HnQQSsurRuW5bishOF1dyAM/w640-h480/IMG_6545.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It was disappointing to note that the various landmarks had been fenced off since I last visited 10 years before because idiots have to be protected from themselves.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is another example of where the thermal activity has caused the minerals to leech to the surface of the earth:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHq2AXY5zMOQsNtcAHulXQXq4nbqYlB_VmQWF0FTljFJnAUCAJYRtwqJtQ-2P-953vUBZQmotyYiRVTdKLYSMS3CdKuou7xOW7-LEyjdK7Ty-J30unloeVbLzI4PDd8pUESmS6wmx1dU/s5152/IMG_6550.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHq2AXY5zMOQsNtcAHulXQXq4nbqYlB_VmQWF0FTljFJnAUCAJYRtwqJtQ-2P-953vUBZQmotyYiRVTdKLYSMS3CdKuou7xOW7-LEyjdK7Ty-J30unloeVbLzI4PDd8pUESmS6wmx1dU/w640-h480/IMG_6550.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the very appropriately named Devil's Bath:</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf71zVWIqDqcbzBV6CekFb4Ik-tBVQY42PpS4or0DWvOETjZo8BZ44uyQQwZcF8pX8FEyLFcrnFxfUZhyphenhyphentEfSIsATYxPTmdENMiRlzsrmPOOuwOHe6Pg7Xugqzg_BhwDdRkZYY45u4I7M/s5152/IMG_6555.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf71zVWIqDqcbzBV6CekFb4Ik-tBVQY42PpS4or0DWvOETjZo8BZ44uyQQwZcF8pX8FEyLFcrnFxfUZhyphenhyphentEfSIsATYxPTmdENMiRlzsrmPOOuwOHe6Pg7Xugqzg_BhwDdRkZYY45u4I7M/w480-h640/IMG_6555.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The colour results from water mixing with sulphur and ferrous salts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's my dear mum in front of the Devil's Bath (it was raining on the day of our visit, which added to the other worldly atmosphere):</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LJr3wTELpblj49SIQzTptTdOLUONgTDLO4xxzo9oOhNAl_1EyNGQiAqxqdxk7eK7BH3COm0TdDddm3oLAgjKKRT9XPszC2S1gqQr1sXzLwT62ZZ4El6wfQoc0nQ81RTomGOPLXEoxjU/s5152/IMG_6553.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LJr3wTELpblj49SIQzTptTdOLUONgTDLO4xxzo9oOhNAl_1EyNGQiAqxqdxk7eK7BH3COm0TdDddm3oLAgjKKRT9XPszC2S1gqQr1sXzLwT62ZZ4El6wfQoc0nQ81RTomGOPLXEoxjU/w640-h480/IMG_6553.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">A must for all tourists is to watch a geyser erupt. The park staff arrange this on cue at a set time every day by throwing soap into the geyser, in this case the Lady Knox Geyser:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4eyP4x1NTXvlqOvl_SFc1vmq72JdIBpE6kiscy2jNgQILiUPC9MVTFkxT7TpgHpNq8rmFmDGBIEm2YGtuU9I-w6SZ5u3T1Tw9tynoo7IqY_hyphenhyphenoN8437YdKJXuUrBYqrqHE-lw8a70Vs/s5152/IMG_6559.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4eyP4x1NTXvlqOvl_SFc1vmq72JdIBpE6kiscy2jNgQILiUPC9MVTFkxT7TpgHpNq8rmFmDGBIEm2YGtuU9I-w6SZ5u3T1Tw9tynoo7IqY_hyphenhyphenoN8437YdKJXuUrBYqrqHE-lw8a70Vs/w640-h480/IMG_6559.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Boom!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdv1J-CgPdv1tW3lZLjtWjZiym5TojCJsUvN_AJTmjBfQ-e-Iek5TAJ5Ib3IC6_aKvMg-e0SG68n-0JBNnjYb7RBJeJt8j8ObxuGA3qkoia_8asKH9Iuj-D81YfqMhdkelPp1e25BiSyg/s5152/IMG_6560.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdv1J-CgPdv1tW3lZLjtWjZiym5TojCJsUvN_AJTmjBfQ-e-Iek5TAJ5Ib3IC6_aKvMg-e0SG68n-0JBNnjYb7RBJeJt8j8ObxuGA3qkoia_8asKH9Iuj-D81YfqMhdkelPp1e25BiSyg/w480-h640/IMG_6560.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is a peaceful view over Lake Rotomahana to give you relief from all the thermal action:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjejeJtoJpbzCRR5IRHudX-d2TB5BqUqhyphenhyphen4t2bAc5EJmOKF-b95QNDYpqt5Snj2LdONwpEk9sCZik9LMJxwDPB41TjNnwUHfsf9vJ2psTzlRzcb6RV9YulVdmXGyXosB_eCWCbhymB7WZk/s5152/IMG_6569.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjejeJtoJpbzCRR5IRHudX-d2TB5BqUqhyphenhyphen4t2bAc5EJmOKF-b95QNDYpqt5Snj2LdONwpEk9sCZik9LMJxwDPB41TjNnwUHfsf9vJ2psTzlRzcb6RV9YulVdmXGyXosB_eCWCbhymB7WZk/w640-h480/IMG_6569.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I highly recommend a visit to one of the thermal parks while you are in Rotorua - the thermal activity and the land forms it has created are spectacular and unique.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.sudimahotels.com/en/our-hotels/rotorua/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sudima Hotel</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1000 Eruera Street</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rotorua NZ</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 7 348 1174</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.polynesianspa.co.nz/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Polynesian Spa</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1000 Hinemoa Street</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rotorua NZ</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 7 348 1328</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.eliteadventures.co.nz/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Elite Adventures</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">43 Holland Street</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rotorua NZ</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 7 347 8282</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.waiotapu.co.nz/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">201 Waiotapu Loop Road</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">RD 3, Rotorua, NZ</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ph: +64 7 3666 333</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div></div></div>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-16192489797047935762020-09-08T18:28:00.000-07:002020-09-08T18:28:58.254-07:00Tamaki Maori Village, Rotorua, New Zealand<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMI1GEJRNMmY5j9pwZ9dTysNM7k4pXzoMPVdCfY-EXvBT9x3F3CBPbZO7HQfMvbeP32I-PeZsynwFD6w4hh_dCTJyApPqO02uCh1_27lWLorCczzJYpU1Zm_gNnFdXUr3jTsvh3phv24/s2048/IMG_2200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMI1GEJRNMmY5j9pwZ9dTysNM7k4pXzoMPVdCfY-EXvBT9x3F3CBPbZO7HQfMvbeP32I-PeZsynwFD6w4hh_dCTJyApPqO02uCh1_27lWLorCczzJYpU1Zm_gNnFdXUr3jTsvh3phv24/w640-h480/IMG_2200.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Right now, we can't travel anywhere, so I am finally getting around to doing some armchair travel on my blog. Two years ago this month, my family went to New Zealand for a vacation. It was my third trip to New Zealand and their second. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I wanted to take my family to places that they had never been to before that I enjoyed, and one place that I had never been to as I couldn't fit it in on my 2008 trip (yep, that long ago). Sadly, the family did not like the places that I had enjoyed as much as I did, and I didn't enjoy them as much as a result, but hey, that's the joys of family travel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">After a brief stopover in Auckland, on the North Island, we took the bus to Rotorua. They have a great intercity bus network in New Zealand, and it is a cheap way to see the country side and get from A to B (although not fast).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While in Rotorua, we visited the <a href="https://www.tamakimaorivillage.co.nz/">Tamaki Maori Village</a>. I think it is great to take in some Maori culture while in New Zealand, even if it is a tourist friendly version.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To get to Tamaki Maori Village, you take a shuttle bus from Rotorua, and the village is a short drive out on the freeway. We were divided into groups and allocated to a guide. The groups were named after extinct New Zealand bird life. Our group was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huia">Huias</a> (pronounced hoo-ya), driven to extinction by the Europeans destroying their habitat, introducing predators and killing them as ornaments for their living rooms. On the bus ride, we were taught a few Maori words, including ka pai (good).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On arrival, we received the Maori greeting (Powhiri):</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX6yFU2D16xF99f3vVo_KHorvrHlFFellReKB-xUaeC9VdmT_vFiEXtUCNTdqLqmHI9geJEvqPzpMiLlDOoAMB_CwIFB5QUcP0wLkZHzhAPfQJ0H9UdzkflTsdtiZ1-cXGlavsGMd0Wg/s2048/IMG_2161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX6yFU2D16xF99f3vVo_KHorvrHlFFellReKB-xUaeC9VdmT_vFiEXtUCNTdqLqmHI9geJEvqPzpMiLlDOoAMB_CwIFB5QUcP0wLkZHzhAPfQJ0H9UdzkflTsdtiZ1-cXGlavsGMd0Wg/w640-h480/IMG_2161.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some hapless chap was involved in audience participation at this stage as the chief of our tribe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our groups then toured the village, which is divided into whare (huts), each featuring a different cultural activity or demonstration. A word of warning to the mobility impaired - you do a lot of walking and standing up, so this might not be the greatest activity for you. My mum could not cope with the long periods of standing, and a kind employee led her quietly away and seated her in the cultural experience hut while my brother and I continued with the activities. I thought we'd lost her, but thankfully she turned up a bit later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One of these huts involved a demonstration of stick games, by female actors wearing faux Kiwi feather cloaks:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTPc7ifksDpHASP9mdsZWDfjpq9OobXAutxpIQqzG9y-ubvCZcMSkumowClXqh2dPEc3zv-_HJP-cBGTpHZRWYVcQ1f2EZDQstP5hQERPq-Hl9WGlO0ohVXaaoeqCajF4GTADX1v7IWIA/s2048/IMG_2171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTPc7ifksDpHASP9mdsZWDfjpq9OobXAutxpIQqzG9y-ubvCZcMSkumowClXqh2dPEc3zv-_HJP-cBGTpHZRWYVcQ1f2EZDQstP5hQERPq-Hl9WGlO0ohVXaaoeqCajF4GTADX1v7IWIA/w480-h640/IMG_2171.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was bitterly cold that night, so I am not sure how this poor lady could cope with no shoes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The next hut involved the male tourists being shown how to do the haka, much to the amusement of the female audience:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeMMzF4IhHcOoauyz3MzK4tKtrHJSxRg1ovOiOZrcsxkZhdsrsCMcuJTW0WRuZFPh8NqRUwl7S5RDUGbJy0FjM2qhKPFPuNkxV3gwFvS-9yxZ95pvJL8H9Tv47i9k5uEygcXW2cPWCxU/s2048/IMG_2182.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeMMzF4IhHcOoauyz3MzK4tKtrHJSxRg1ovOiOZrcsxkZhdsrsCMcuJTW0WRuZFPh8NqRUwl7S5RDUGbJy0FjM2qhKPFPuNkxV3gwFvS-9yxZ95pvJL8H9Tv47i9k5uEygcXW2cPWCxU/w480-h640/IMG_2182.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My brother really got into it:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKM3Tn1tu1eweGl0RvtshS087HuCszdyxefGmaB2CwUsabgfyPoHBtCQUt3dZjUaWOqqPxzWF3cr0jbTqQWeCAOP5ZnLApp-fgSl1688lNJjpD9yzJaMZdJsgljNPrNbi2mjZA2BxBVs/s2048/IMG_2185.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKM3Tn1tu1eweGl0RvtshS087HuCszdyxefGmaB2CwUsabgfyPoHBtCQUt3dZjUaWOqqPxzWF3cr0jbTqQWeCAOP5ZnLApp-fgSl1688lNJjpD9yzJaMZdJsgljNPrNbi2mjZA2BxBVs/w480-h640/IMG_2185.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I can't remember what these guys were doing, but it looks impressive:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZbcRt6vKhumSVmbxUwW7sRVsxfa0LbGm-kfOEufOqoPJUaxflMnUvOUG_xFKdT0cDSOyqbBFHhN7usB8ExiSWurB6y_raCw0ae78OcmCD_lBEsR52FFNL7PKopihLNovbBc7wyY1kIc/s2048/IMG_2187.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZbcRt6vKhumSVmbxUwW7sRVsxfa0LbGm-kfOEufOqoPJUaxflMnUvOUG_xFKdT0cDSOyqbBFHhN7usB8ExiSWurB6y_raCw0ae78OcmCD_lBEsR52FFNL7PKopihLNovbBc7wyY1kIc/w480-h640/IMG_2187.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">All the groups then gathered together to hear about the hangi, which involves cooking food in the ground on hot rocks. The hangi feast that we are about to enjoy is in the background, comprised of meat (lamb and chicken in this case) and vegetables:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywyAQZEHmm3YvHFpeZA5hB7-ViDuoFxx0vMaWdYiX8pVoRnvilguigTOe3_C__BdwtgXctHUBj9TXDu74IByzlp5pSbGNINphxNw4TaBOtgMvkKu1MdibUDhvnHzdHEH6zaAMB18zPzY/s2048/IMG_2195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywyAQZEHmm3YvHFpeZA5hB7-ViDuoFxx0vMaWdYiX8pVoRnvilguigTOe3_C__BdwtgXctHUBj9TXDu74IByzlp5pSbGNINphxNw4TaBOtgMvkKu1MdibUDhvnHzdHEH6zaAMB18zPzY/w640-h480/IMG_2195.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This guy, dressed as a chief, is wearing two faux huia tail feathers in his hair:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj685MCz-VxhxkIhKzGrVZGaEKLnxFAiUyLMJTWTSBmog1o0Z6Ed6LOC4LmhiqRCRwHo9CeaYAx4ZgRy0y7woviXXDskPlWQlEnzCj-9EoZjLEyyoAnMPW5Tdx9BAKLwCH7JUyuwSwwB1Q/s2048/IMG_2196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj685MCz-VxhxkIhKzGrVZGaEKLnxFAiUyLMJTWTSBmog1o0Z6Ed6LOC4LmhiqRCRwHo9CeaYAx4ZgRy0y7woviXXDskPlWQlEnzCj-9EoZjLEyyoAnMPW5Tdx9BAKLwCH7JUyuwSwwB1Q/w480-h640/IMG_2196.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Before enjoying the hangi buffet, we attended a 30 minute cultural performance with traditional Maori singing and dancing:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8nxJeCUJG9l4xFAJNgT3L-Cunj9_f-pt-nig_YFokavGm8Q5hLoweVbAQR0Nh03_5S79xZ4JOyqEhQzTfrQRfr8SY8dRHoVMITqoeLRZq8Nya5RUYJrhKSN0nwdmU99o_dxxWHj5HR4/s2048/IMG_2197.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8nxJeCUJG9l4xFAJNgT3L-Cunj9_f-pt-nig_YFokavGm8Q5hLoweVbAQR0Nh03_5S79xZ4JOyqEhQzTfrQRfr8SY8dRHoVMITqoeLRZq8Nya5RUYJrhKSN0nwdmU99o_dxxWHj5HR4/w480-h640/IMG_2197.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I love the tongue:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVkQcgdyP-513KR0I710X9CBcy90OUZ8p2cH889ytMQX6SfB5ZoR2rw6tWLbF-IGY0CKgmbAx2waQE7l81zSuQ400bMWjMdTOgcZD-dHTEvHt5stZSAuUzbFzUgIaoL2p2QSlTGP7wQw/s2048/IMG_2199.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVkQcgdyP-513KR0I710X9CBcy90OUZ8p2cH889ytMQX6SfB5ZoR2rw6tWLbF-IGY0CKgmbAx2waQE7l81zSuQ400bMWjMdTOgcZD-dHTEvHt5stZSAuUzbFzUgIaoL2p2QSlTGP7wQw/w640-h480/IMG_2199.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These women dance while twirling poi balls, made from flax:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HCmoIkoG7EN9S0r1SW43bcikUujal5hUJq6IzV_-gHKAPRnqtzU_mXBiaZ5nZIWOOb-3bRcQd8BFFw4Hj3AgRC4HfTtTyvabZmV9GLgbltTNT_etoMouUG2A0nubXp7wgHLpHSpyI74/s2048/IMG_2200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HCmoIkoG7EN9S0r1SW43bcikUujal5hUJq6IzV_-gHKAPRnqtzU_mXBiaZ5nZIWOOb-3bRcQd8BFFw4Hj3AgRC4HfTtTyvabZmV9GLgbltTNT_etoMouUG2A0nubXp7wgHLpHSpyI74/w640-h480/IMG_2200.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is a short video to take you there:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwvBbeQJxzjdpT2v4FvPMs0lqcnVOQSDdkx2SKHAKOCN7vTgYjFipCKaf_q2hUriOnSvKe_Z7VVRgHRCzhlIg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Afterwards, it was time to dive into the hangi buffet:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-ptkOPocFsKiUrtwLcVUGlN6WwRToe1WHAorJb9L8nx2qLay22nb2T2PlePyEPFNLdhtAilx_hfqGYsuwfRgWgEvgtpFPB5lRyzt3ONDaytvMhAuYQ67Pb_93kN_52Fdl2fTC6G47Kk/s2048/IMG_2217.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-ptkOPocFsKiUrtwLcVUGlN6WwRToe1WHAorJb9L8nx2qLay22nb2T2PlePyEPFNLdhtAilx_hfqGYsuwfRgWgEvgtpFPB5lRyzt3ONDaytvMhAuYQ67Pb_93kN_52Fdl2fTC6G47Kk/w640-h480/IMG_2217.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />There were some very European desserts for afters. We sat at a table with two young travellers from San Francisco, who were going zorbing the next day (yikes!).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Although the Tamaki Maori Village is very touristy, it was fun and worth the visit.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tamaki Maori Village</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1220 Hinemaru Street</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rotorua, New Zealand</span></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-91474595386182489612020-07-18T22:20:00.002-07:002020-07-18T22:25:51.452-07:00Everglades Historic House and Gardens, Leura<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">At the moment, travelling anywhere seems very elusive. However, it sees like a good time to finish off my posts on my travels around regional New South Wales in November last year so that I can remember and enjoy. </font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">While in the Blue Mountains, I visited <a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/everglades-house-gardens/">Everglades Historic House and Gardens</a> in Leura. It is one of the stops on the Hop On Hop Off Bus, so it is easily accessible. Just like the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6682232408609700692/7963532773512364210">Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum</a>, Everglades is a National Trust of Australia property.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">The Everglades is a 1930s house, surrounded by 5.2 hectares of gardens. The current house and gardens were established by Henri van de Velde, a Belgian merchant and felt manufacturer, who engaged Danish landscape designer, Paul Sorensen, to design the gardens.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">The gardens are still very beautiful, with views over the Jamieson Valley, although the main house has not been maintained so well. Its former grandeur is primarily evident in its sweeping main staircase.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">One of the most striking features of the gardens is the sandstone arch with fountain: </font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">The arch came from the former London Chartered Bank of Australia in George Street, Sydney, which building was demolished for van de Velde's own Feltex House. It forms the backdrop to a garden theatre. The gardens surrounding the house are comprised of various terraces, which you can read more about <a href="https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5051254">here</a>.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">The magnificent views of the Jamieson Valley from Everglades are evident in this photo: </font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">This is the sweeping art deco style staircase in the main house:</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">For me, it was the most interesting feature of the house. Much of the original furniture has gone, and there is not much to see inside the house apart from a few odds and ends of historical interest, and the ugliest bath I have ever seen.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Walking trails snake through the expansive gardens, which are divided into segments devoted to particular types of plants. If you have the time, you can walk from the gardens to Gordon Falls, but as I arrived in the late afternoon, I was not able to do so or I would have missed the last bus back to Katoomba. </font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Here is a view of one of the various terraces surrounding the house:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">This is a close up of the beautiful rhododendrum blossoms growing in the gardens at the back of the house:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">The wilder bush gardens at the back of the house are peppered with wooden animal carvings cut into tree stumps, like these koalas:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">There is a tranquil pond at the back of the house:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">There are paths throughout the gardens for easy walking: </font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">To my delight, there were waratahs (the floral emblem of New South Wales) in full bloom on one side of the house:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">There is also a workman's cottage nearby: </font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Here's another waratah (because I can't get enough of them and had never seen one in reality before):</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">There were some fetching crimson parrots feeding near the waratahs. I couldn't get a good shot of them lest I get too close and scare them away, but you can just see one foraging in the bark here: </font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">These are the gardens in another of the terraces:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">These beautiful wild violets peek out from the side of a wall:</font></div><font face="arial"><br />
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<font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If you get there early enough, there is also a tea room, but it was shut by the time I arrived.</span></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Wandering the gardens of Everglades is a lovely way to spend a relaxed afternoon (or to do a quick sprint in a couple of hours, like me). </font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="arial">Everglades House & Gardens</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="arial">37-49 Everglades Avenue</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="arial">Leura NSW 2780</font></div>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-51286350454097595442020-04-24T20:32:00.000-07:002020-04-24T20:33:55.286-07:00Art Deco Katoomba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No-one is travelling anywhere at the moment as a result of COVID-19 restrictions. However, that does not mean that we cannot dream of places that we have been, and when we might be able to go there again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of last year, I stayed for a couple of nights at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales. Katoomba is a beautiful town surrounded by even more beautiful natural surroundings. My last travel post was about The Carrington Hotel, which has many art deco features despite being built much earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Katoomba also has a number of other art deco buildings, which are easy to spot as you saunter down the main street. Take a photographic journey with me and enjoy the lovely art deco shop fronts that line Katoomba Street in Katoomba - some of them are not so lovely inside, but that does not detract from these wonderful examples of art deco architecture. </span><br />
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<br />Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-75806590094188962092020-02-16T13:44:00.000-08:002020-02-16T18:42:43.985-08:00The Carrington Hotel, Katoomba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I stayed in Katoomba at the end of last year, I booked a room at The Carrington Hotel, not really knowing what it was like. My reasons for booking were that it wasn't a backpackers and it was close to the train station and the main street of Katoomba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was overwhelmed by how much more The Carrington was in reality. It is a striking, beautiful property that has been restored internally to art deco style, although it was built in 1883. The Carrington is indeed a grand old lady. Rather than give you a potted history of the hotel, you can read about it on the hotel website <a href="https://www.thecarrington.com.au/our-hotel/history/">here</a>. Looking at the hotel now, it is hard to believe that it was left vacant and derelict between 1985 and 1991.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the sweeping entrance way, you are greeted by these lovely art deco style lamps: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was lucky enough to book a balcony room (without any idea of what that entailed), but here are the wonderful views across the township and the Blue Mountains from the top floor balcony:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a close up of the doorway to demonstrate the wonderful detail in the woodwork and the stained glass features:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the waiting room come parlour behind reception: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a view of the downstairs hallway which leads to the breakfast room and the grand staircase to the rooms upstairs:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is the staircase (there is an old fashioned lift if stairs are not your thing):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are the stairs leading to the former baths (now they are bedrooms):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is the downstairs bar (sadly shuttered for the night by the time I got there):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved this old fashioned drinking fountain in the hall: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a close up of the magnificent stained glass in the door of the former baths:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are artworks liberally scattered throughout The Carrington. Many of them are Norman Lindsay sketches or etchings, like this one over my bed: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you know <a href="http://cakelawstraveltales.blogspot.com/2018/11/norman-lindsay-gallery-and-museum.html">from a previous post</a>, Norman Lindsay lived for a good deal of his life in a property at Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains, which you can visit, so it is fitting that his art decorates the Carrington.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Carrington features beautiful gardens that guests can enjoy:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some lovely poppies that were blooming in the garden during my stay:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an exquisite rose residing in the garden:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you travel to Katoomba and love art deco or old worldly places, I highly recommend that you stay at The Carrington.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another lovely spot that I visited on my travels through New South Wales was the Hunter Valley, famed for its wineries. I chose to do an overnight tour of the Hunter Valley with AEA Luxury Tours. This gave me an opportunity to explore some of the Hunter Valley beyond the cellar doors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The driver on day 1 was brilliant. I think his name was John, but I can't remember for sure. John is a Sydney-sider born and bred, and gave us a running commentary about various places in Sydney and beyond that we passed through on route to our first destination, <a href="https://www.mtviewestate.com.au/">Mount View Estate Winery</a>. The view at the top of this post is over the vineyards surrounding Mount View Estate. At Mount View, we enjoyed our first wine tasting of the day. I was so impressed with Mount View's wines that I bought three bottles - a liqueur Shiraz, a Cerise (sparkling red) and a Fuschia (rose).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Leogate, I was dropped off at my hotel in Polkolbin to spend my afternoon at leisure. I chose to book my own accommodation at <a href="https://www.mercurehuntervalley.com.au/">The Mercure Resort Hunter Valley Gardens</a> in Polkolbin rather than stay at the accommodation that AEA would have booked, which was at a resort away from the action and hence with no way to get around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took the opportunity to visit the <a href="https://www.huntervalleygardens.com.au/">Hunter Valley Gardens</a> (entry - $30; I received a discount voucher from The Mercure), which were in walking distance of my accommodation. The Hunter Valley Gardens is a large estate with different gardens planted to represent different countries. There is also a children's garden with nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters, and when I visited, I was just one day before their annual Christmas Lights Spectacular started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After I had seen the gardens, I visited the adjoining Hunter Valley Gardens Shopping Village. Among other shops, there is<a href="https://www.huntervalleygardens.com.au/shopping-village/cupcake-espresso/"> Cupcake Espresso</a>, where you can buy icecream, coffee, tea and of course cupcakes: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is also the delightful <a href="https://www.huntervalleygardens.com.au/shopping-village/hunter-valley-christmas-shop/">Hunter Valley Christmas Shop</a>, which is full of novel Christmas decorations:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shopping village is also home to <a href="https://www.huntervalleygardens.com.au/shopping-village/hunter-valley-chocolate-company/">The Hunter Valley Chocolate Co</a>. Here is my haul from the chocolate shop:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spied this wonderful waterbird family swimming in the pond at the shopping village:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last but not least, I visited <a href="https://www.huntervalleygardens.com.au/shopping-village/the-garden-cellars/">The Garden Cellars</a>, which has a stunning array of different flavours of beer with amusing labels:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next day, I had the morning at my leisure to explore, so I crossed the road from my accommodation to Polkolbin Village, where there are some more vineyards to admire:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of my favourite shops in Polkolbin Village is <a href="http://www.smellycheese.net.au/">The Hunter Valley Smelly Cheese Shop</a>, which sells cheeses, meats, condiments, icecream, sandwiches and other things in between: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the afternoon, AEA picked me up and I joined a new tour group for the final stop on my overnight Hunter Valley tour to Tulloch's Winery for a wine and chocolate tasting: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What could be better than spending half an hour or so tasting wine and chocolate?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was then transported by small coach back to my Sydney accommodation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hunter Valley is a food and wine lovers' paradise - do check it out on your next trip to New South Wales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Update: The Hunter Valley was on the Today show on 11 February 2020. Here’s the team at Tulloch Winery asking you all to visit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next stop on my travels through New South Wales late last year was the South Coast and the Southern Highlands. These areas are best explored by car, so I booked on a private tour conducted by Korhan of <a href="https://dailysydneytours.com/">Daily Sydney Tours</a>. Korhan allows you to tailor your tour so that if there is anything outside the standard itinerary that you really want to see and it can feasibly be done in one day, Korhan will take you there. I was keen to spend some time in a couple of the towns in the Southern Highlands, so Korhan very obligingly added this in. In turn, I skipped the Buddhist temple and the wine tasting, which I was not particularly interested in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first stop on our tour was Wattamolla Beach in the Royal National Park:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a very pretty spot, where we met a number of water dragons sunning themselves on the rocks. They were not so keen to make our acquaintance and quickly scarpered when we approached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some more views of the cliffs and ocean from the Royal National Park:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korhan then took us up to the Saddleback Mountain Lookout at Kiama for some scenic photo opportunities:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At my request, our next stop was the quaint country town of Berry in the Southern Highlands, where we stopped for lunch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many historic buildings in Berry, and the main street is short enough that you can easily walk from one end to the other in around 20 minutes, even at a gentle stroll:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the day of our visit, there was a team of workers painting the bridge. Its claim to fame is that it is one of the few remaining suspension bridges in Australia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Pioneer Village Museum is across the road from the bridge, but the thing that captured my attention was the "Wombats Crossing" sign (which is not a common thing to see):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our next stop was Fitzroy Falls, with magnificent views of the Kangaroo Valley:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our last stop of the day was also at my request at Bowral, one of the larger towns in the Southern Highlands. Due to limited time, our sole destination in Bowral was the <a href="https://internationalcrickethall.com/">Bradman Museum and International Cricket Hall of Fame</a>. Here is the old fashioned cricket ground beside the museum:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a bronze statue of Sir Donald Bradman (a famous Australian cricket player) at the entrance to the museum:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Highlights inside the museum ($20 admission fee) include one of Richie Benaud's jackets from his cricket reporting career with Channel 9:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and for me, growing up with a cricket loving mother, the early one day World Series Cricket uniforms: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korhan dropped me back to my hotel in CBD Sydney at around 5pm. It was an action packed day full of firsts for me, and Korhan made it very easy to get to the South Coast and Southern Highlands and provided knowledgeable commentary about the areas we visited. I highly recommend Daily Sydney Tours, who also conduct tours in other regions surrounding Sydney (see their website at the link below for details). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On my second day in the Blue Mountains, I did a half day eco tour with Tim Tranter of <a href="https://www.treadlightly.com.au/">Tread Lightly Ecotours</a>. I cannot speak highly enough of Tim - he is a trained ecologist who lectures at universities both in Australia and in the US, and is extremely knowledgeable about the Blue Mountains, having lived there for over 40 years. Tim's tours cover biology, geography, geology, botany, meteorology, forest management and aboriginal culture. What is also terrific is that Tim will tailor the tour to suit your interests and fitness levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim picked me up from my hotel in Katoomba before embarking on the tour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim took us on The Valley of the Waters walking tour, showcasing various types of forest (including rainforest), Empress Falls and Queen Victoria Lookout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The start of the tour contrasts eucalypt forest with scrubby grassland:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim then showed us the Geebung bush, which grows edible fruits. The Geebung bush is a member of the Protea family. Tim took one of the unripe fruits from the tree and cut it open to show us. There is a large inedible seed inside, and Tim told us that the fruit tastes a little like pepper and walnut:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next to the Geebung bush was a banksia tree which had finished blooming, with the hard dark "Banksia men" cones on display:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The diversity of the forests in the Blue Mountains in demonstrated by this photo, which shows where the scrubby bush meets eucalypt forest: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is some kind of leptospermum that I spied along the walking track:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some purple pea flowers - perhaps Blue Bonnets:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is another type of leptospermum along the walking track:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are some yellow pea flowers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These spiky yellow flowers are weirdly colloquially called Drumsticks (scientific name Ispogen anemonifolius):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim pointed out the different layers of forest along the way. This photo shows the various layers of eucalyptus forest and rainforest. The Blue Mountains is home to some of the last remaining <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5541/">Gondwana rainforest</a> in the world; unfortunately, some of it has been lost in the recent bushfires that swept through the region: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim discussed the bushfire management activities undertaken in the mountains, and pointed out the difference between new growth forest (from controlled back burns), with three year old forest (from the previous bushfires) and older forest that had not been recently burned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Blue Mountains are not actually mountains but a dissected plateau; however, as Tim said, the Blue Mountains sounds much cooler than the Blue Plateau.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim stopped to show us the distinctive layers of ironstone at one lookout:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We continued our walk towards Empress Falls, and I spied these pink bell flowers (orchids? lilies?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some more white bell flowers of unknown genus:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The views along the Valley of the Waters walk are stunning - here is just one of them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some more flowers along the track - I think they are blue orchids of some variety:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is one of the lovely pools in the Valley of the Waters:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Isn't this cascade beautiful:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is another of the views along the Valley of the Waters track:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And another - you can see that the terrain was not all straight forward:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, we reached Empress Falls:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the area of the Falls where <a href="https://www.highandwild.com.au/canyoning/summer-canyoning/empress-canyon/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlO_zyrug5wIVQhyPCh2eqABKEAAYAiAAEgKJwvD_BwE">canyoners pop out</a> - you can see from the slope and depth that this is not an activity for the faint hearted (and definitely not for me):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is an example of the rugged sandstone cliff faces overlooking the falls. Tim said that the First Peoples sheltered from the extremes of weather on these cliffs: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stopped for lunch at Queen Victoria lookout. Lunch comprised a delicious wrap from Hominy Bakery in Katoomba. Here are some of the fabulous views from the lookout into the Jamison Valley: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more information about the flora of the Blue Mountains, see <a href="https://www.waratahsoftware.com.au/wpr-flora-bluemountains-peaflowers.shtml#orchid-row-3b">Blue Mountains Wildflowers</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more information about The Valley of the Waters track, see <a href="http://www.wildwalks.com/bushwalking-and-hiking-in-nsw/blue-mountains-wentworth-falls/valley-of-the-waters-track.html">this site</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For information about what to see and do in the Blue Mountains, see <a href="https://www.visitbluemountains.com.au/">this site</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you watch the news at all, wherever you may be in the world, you will know that Australia is in the middle of devastating bushfire season. Australia suffers bushfires at least somewhere every year, but this year is different because of the number of locations and sheer size of the areas affected. It will take years (if ever) for the affected areas to fully recover. Many people and animals have lost their lives, many more have been severely injured or lost everything they owned. There are also knock-on effects beyond the affected regions, including economic impact and the effects of smoke pollution. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New South Wales is one of the states badly hit by bushfires, from the north to the south. In the first week of November 2019, I spent a lovely week travelling through various regions of New South Wales, at least some of which will now have been burnt out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it is a fitting time to celebrate the beauty of these regions by posting some of my photos from my travels before the fires hit, and urge everyone who can to go and visit these unique and exquisite areas. You will not only be doing yourself a favour, but you will be helping the people, the wildlife and the entire region to recover from the devastation wreaked by the bushfires. Also note that the forests do start to regenerate quickly to heal themselves, so there will be natural scenery for you to view beyond the stark blackened ruins left behind by the fires. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am going to start with one of the better known regions that I visited, the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The Blue Mountains got their name because the oils from the eucalyptus trees which are abundant in the region refract light to produce a distinctive blue colour, which produces a blue haze over the mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is very easy to get to the Blue Mountains, even without a car, as there is a <a href="https://transportnsw.info/routes/details/intercity-trains/bmt/02BMT">terrific rail line</a> that travels there from Central Station in Sydney (though I understand that the further out regions of the line past Katoomba will be down for some months due to bushfire damage). I travelled to Katoomba, a popular tourist town, by train, and spent my first day in the Blue Mountains travelling via the <a href="https://www.explorerbus.com.au/">Blue Mountains Explorer Bus</a>. This bus is a "hop on, hop off" service that is familiar in many cities and towns these days, and is an easy way to see the key sights in and around Katoomba and Leura without a car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first stop where I got off was at Katoomba Cascades. I walked from there to the next stop, Katoomba Falls, via an easy 1km bushwalk. (Disclosure - I was wearing a dress the whole first day, and I easily completed each of the bushwalks that I will mention without being hampered in the slightest.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From there, I next stopped at the Honeymoon Lookout stop, where you can do a short 1km bush walk on the Prince Henry Cliff Walk to Echo Point, where all the tourists stop for the best view of the Three Sisters. On the way, you can take a detour at the Giant Stairway, where you take 147 steps down a rather steep but easily navigable metal stairway with stunning valley views (note this is just the first part of the Giant Stairway - the full stairway to the bottom of the Three Sisters is 998 steps!): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your reward at the end of the stairway is to walk across a bridge and be able to touch one of the Three Sisters: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually, the path takes you to Echo Point, where you get a superb view of the Three Sisters (there are actually really seven sisters, but only three are prominent!), and the valley beyond:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike the other stops, Echo Point is a tourist mecca, with shops and bus stops and tourists everywhere. You are definitely not in the bush at Echo Point, but it is worth going there for the fabulous views of the Three Sisters (which of course make it so popular).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next stop that I got off at was Leura Cascades (an area that I know was affected by bushfires as the surrounding area was closed for few days). The beautiful tranquil waterfalls in this area are the stand out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These photos show only a fraction of the beautiful natural landscape in the Blue Mountains that is yours to enjoy if you choose to visit. Apart from Echo Point and the Three Sisters, the area is peaceful and quiet and you won't meet too many people on your travels, so it is the perfect place to come and commune with nature and enjoy the natural beauty that is so abundant here.</span>Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-45937232208833671362019-03-22T18:39:00.001-07:002019-03-22T18:44:00.670-07:00Litchfield National Park and Howard Springs Nature Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the last day of our tour, we bade farewell to Kakadu and visited Litchfield National Park and Howard Springs Nature Park. It was another scorching hot day in the Territory, so I was pleased that we were going to be near water. Even better, we were promised a swim in the rock pools if we desired it - hooray!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first stop in Litchfield National Park was at the Magnetic Termite Mounds and Cathedral Termite Mounds. The Magnetic Termite Mounds are so called because they are aligned north to south, and there are heaps of them on display in a large field. There are many more than in this photo:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just across the way from the Magnetic Termite Mounds are the Cathedral Termite Mounds, so called because of their towering structure:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having seen the termite mounds, we headed to Florence Falls to escape the heat. Here is a view of the falls on the way down to the rock pool:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once back at the hotel, we witnessed this glorious golden sunset to closeout our day in the Top End:</span></div>
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Sending best wishes to the people of the Top End, who are at present (in March 2019) in cyclone season and are being hit by Cyclones Trevor and Veronica at once. There is a mass evacuation underway from Darwin to protect the people from the force of the cyclones. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our second day in Kakadu National Park, we spent the early part of the day looking at Aboriginal rock art at Ubirr, before going on another cruise, this time on the East Alligator River. This cruise was very different to the wetlands cruise, and demonstrated how diverse the landscape is in Kakadu National Park. Our cruise was by Guluyambi Cruises, which are run by the Aboriginal people of the Top End.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were taken down the river in a boat by our Aboriginal guide from Arnhem Land, who skilfully negotiated the many snags in the river. Along the way, he gave us softly spoken commentary about what we were seeing and its significance to his people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This plant is used by the Aboriginal people to make fibres and medicine:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't you just love the contrast of these ghostly trees against the bright blue sky:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While in Arnhem Land, our guide demonstrated the use of Aboriginal hunting spears, thrown using a woomera:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am pretty sure that I would be hopeless at spear throwing:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The East Alligator River Cruise was followed by a visit to the Bowali Visitor Centre, celebrating Aboriginal culture, before we made the long drive back to Darwin in the bus. It was worth it just to see yet another glorious Top End sunset:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You won't find a sunset as magnificent as this in many places. Gotta love the NT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of our visit to Kakadu National Park last year, our <a href="https://www.aatkings.com/tours/darwin/kakadu-and-litchfield-national-parks/">tour group</a> did a Wetlands Cruise on the Yellow Water Billabong. This was my favourite part of the entire trip - the scenery and wildlife were just breathtakingly beautiful, and it is what I imagined when I thought of Kakadu National Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tour started with a road trip from Darwin. At our first rest stop, we saw this albino buffalo:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was feeding time, so this buffalo was very pre-occupied with his breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also saw this massive crocodile, which some of our tour group thought was not real, but believe me, I think this dude was alive and just waiting for someone to come in and test their theory:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a visit to the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre, we headed out to our wetlands cruise by <a href="https://www.kakadutourism.com/tours-activities/yellow-water-cruises/">Yellow Water Cruises</a> on these boats:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a stunning day, with sunshine, blue skies, and dark blue water:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a diverse range of birdlife at the billabong. First up was a magpie goose:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now we come to my favourite bird, the <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-27/combcrested-jacana-waterbird-carrying-chicks-to-safety/10737512">jacana or Jesus bird</a>. These birds are tiny with very long, spindly toes, so that they can "walk on water" via the lily pads. The male jacana looks after the chicks, which is the opposite to many species in the bird world. In this first photo, the daddy jacana is flapping his wings to ward away a lizard that is intent on harming his young:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I highly recommend doing a Yellow Water Cruise on the Yellow Water Billabong at Kakadu National Park - it is absolutely magnificent. </span></div>
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<br />Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-38649386941774996832019-01-20T03:31:00.000-08:002019-01-20T03:32:45.552-08:00Aboriginal Rock Art, Kakadu, Northern Territory<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During our trip to the Northern Territory in May, we visited <a href="https://parksaustralia.gov.au/kakadu/">Kakadu National Park</a>. There is a lot to love about Kakadu, including the many examples of Aboriginal rock art that are open to the public to view. We visited Kakadu with an AAT Kings tour group so that we were taken to the relevant places, and had a guide to explain what we were visiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On day 1, we visited the Nourlangie rock art gallery, which includes the Anbangbang rock art gallery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up is a man using a woomera to spear a kangaroo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a wallaby, I think:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a closeup of the man spearing the kangaroo, with the woomera clearly visible:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not entirely sure what is going on here, but it looks like a hunting scene to me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Namarrgon, the lightning man (top right) and his wife, Barrginj (just under the large central figure). Their children are Aljurr or Leichhardts grasshoppers, which appear when the first storms break: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lightning Man broke the incest laws with his sister, so he was turned into a saltwater crocodile, Ginga, which is the big figure at the top centre. The miscellaneous people at bottom right are off to a ceremony, and there are fish on the bottom right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up is a rather gruesome moral tale whereby the hunter, Maybuyu, had his fish catch stolen. Maybuyu punished the thieves by rolling a rock in front of the cave where they were hiding out so that they could never leave:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving right along in a different spot, there is an illustrated "menu" of food caught nearby, mostly featuring fish but with a wallaby and certain other creatures included:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is some more food from the menu:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also evidence at Ubirr that Tasmanian tigers once roamed the Top End, as there is a Tassie tiger painted in one of the galleries at Ubirr (see centre bottom):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another galley at Ubirr, there is featured this hunting scene:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is part two of the hunting scene - see the turtle next to the fish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the same day, we did a cruise down the East Alligator River up to Arnhem Land. There was also Aboriginal rock art along the river banks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It really is fascinating to see this art work laid down so long ago by the First People, and to learn some of their stories and what they ate through the art.</span><br />
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<br />Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-75649795490171292682018-11-29T01:12:00.001-08:002019-01-20T03:32:36.593-08:00Verdon Chambers, Melbourne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Verdon Chambers in Collins Street, Melbourne, was the residence of the first manager of the English, Scottish and Australia Chartered Bank, Sir George Verdon. No expense was spared in its design, and its richness has been restored to its former glory. Verdon Chambers is now heritage listed so that future generations can enjoy the opulence of the bygone ear of the 1880s, when Verdon Chambers was built.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read about the history of Verdon Chambers and find out more about the features of the property <a href="https://shareholder.anz.com/our-company/profile/verdon-chambers?page=0%2C1">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These blue Venetian tiles are a pleasant surprise in the loggia (a word I only learned a few days prior to touring Verdon Chambers while watching <i>Are You Paying Attention?</i>, when a clip was played of Christopher Pyne, a Federal politician, explaining to Carrie Bickmore of <i>The Project</i> that his favourite household chore is to trim the wisteria in the loggia!!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We recently visited the Normal Lindsay Gallery and Museum in Faulconbridge, New South Wales. It is quite easy to get there during the week (Monday to Friday) without a car by taking the train from Central Station in Sydney to Springwood (on the Blue Mountains Line), then catching the 960C bus at 10.50am from The Hippy Shop across the road from the railway station. You can get back the same way by catching the 2.50pm bus back to Springwood from the gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Norman Lindsay and his second wife, Rose, lived in the house, which is now the cornerstone of the gallery. It is filled with Norman Lindsay's watercolours, model ships, oil paintings, vases and currently, a Magic Pudding Exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of publication of Norman's children's book, <i>The Magic Pudding</i>. The exhibition features sketches, movie and theatre posters, marionettes and versions of <i>The Magic Pudding</i> published in different languages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can also peek at the kitchen largely as it was when the Lindsays lived there, complete with an Aga:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grounds of the house feature many statues and fountains made by Normal Lindsay, and as part of a tour included in the price of admission to the house, you can see Norman Lindsay's painting studio (largely just as he left it, including with paints and a typewriter), and the etching studio where Norman and Rose produced etchings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are some photographs taken around the grounds of the house, with captions regarding their subject matter.</span><br />
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Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-40443373495135142252018-10-27T17:33:00.003-07:002019-01-20T03:32:08.782-08:00Buildings in Darwin<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In May, I went to Darwin for the first time to check out the Top End. There are only two seasons in Darwin the wet season and the dry season. Both are hot (plus 30 degrees Celsius temperatures), but the wet season is not only wet with cyclones, but it is also oppressively humid. That is why it is highly recommended that visitors to Darwin travel during the dry season. May is the beginning of the dry season, so we started off on the right foot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are photos of some of the interesting and often beautiful buildings that I spotted in my travels through Darwin. These buildings traverse a wide range of architectural styles, reflecting different periods in Darwin's history. Many of these buildings were damaged by the severe cyclones that Darwin has suffered over the years, and bombing during World War II by the Japanese, so have had to be restored to some degree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up is the Governor's residence, placed strategically down by the foreshore:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the gorgeous hedge of bougainvillea along the fenceline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Across the road from the Governor's house are the old police station and magistrate's court, with portions of these buildings being genuinely old and other portions being later additions:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unusual stone in these buildings is known as porcellanite, and features prominently in older Darwin buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving into the centre of town, you will find <a href="https://northernterritory.com/darwin-and-surrounds/see-and-do/browns-mart-darwin">Browns Mart</a> in Smith Street, a porcellanite building established in the 1880s, and which has survived Darwin's harsh climactic events:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started life as a goods exchange, but after numerous uses over the years, it has been a community theatre since the 1970s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The church itself is built in the shape of a sail in honour of the Australian navy sailors, and inside the church, there is a magnificent sail-shaped stained glass window:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although I was not enamoured of the food at <a href="http://kitchenlaw.blogspot.com/search?q=darwin">Rorkes</a>, it is worth going there just to check out the beautiful interior of the restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another example of art deco architecture can be found at <a href="http://www.thehoteldarwin.com.au/">Hotel Darwin</a>, on Mitchell Street, which back in the day was the place to be, and apparently had a stunning blue roof that could be admired from an aerial view:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Going outside of the Darwin town centre, you will find a cluster of four historic houses at <a href="https://northernterritory.com/darwin-and-surrounds/see-and-do/myilly-point-heritage-precinct">Myilly Point</a>, built between 1936 and 1939 as Type E residences for public servants:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the stilts and wide windows to allow the air to circulate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a Type E resident on The Esplanade that <a href="https://northernterritory.com/darwin-and-surrounds/see-and-do/myilly-point-heritage-precinct">now houses a high end restaurant</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heading back to the Smith Street Mall, you will find a tribute to the former <a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/36192">Star Theatre</a>, hiding behind this unassuming entrance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This star used to grace the top of the theatre until it was torn down by Cyclone Tracey:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Going out of town, at the end of Smith Street farthest from the ocean, you will find St Mary's Star of the Sea Cathedral: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, if you were to go back towards the ocean end of Darwin, you will find the Darwin Supreme Court Building in State Square:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a fantastic mosaic on the foyer floor of the Supreme Court, based on an Aboriginal art work called <i>Milky Way Dreaming</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story of this mosaic is seven sisters who become evening stars to escape an unwanted and persistent suitor. The suitor turns himself into a star to continue to chase the sisters, but unfortunately for him, and much to the delight of the sisters, he becomes a morning star - hence he will never be able to catch them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parliament House is built on the site of the old Darwin Post Office, which was bombed by the Japanese during World War II. There are some historical artifacts of the old Post Office inside Parliament House, which also discuss the story of the people who died when the Post Office was bombed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outside of the building also tips its hat to the history of the site, with a number of pillars made in the shape of bombs:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the view onto the Parliament House forecourt, which overlooks the ocean: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School children visiting Parliament House were eating lunch on the forecourt here when we visited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is rather grand inside the high-ceilinged ground floor of Parliament House:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The foyer of Parliament House features a mosaic of a seven-petalled Desert Rose flower:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The petals represent the six states of Australia and the Northern Territory, and the Desert Rose is the Northern Territory's floral emblem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While we were travelling near and through <a href="https://parksaustralia.gov.au/kakadu/">Kakadu National Park</a> in the Northern Territory, an inescapable part of much of the landscape was the pandanus palms, which grew in enormous groves in various places throughout the park, as demonstrated by this blurry photo taken from a moving bus:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pandanus palms fascinated me, not because of their attractiveness in situ, but because the Aboriginal women could take the leaves, strip them down and make <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillybag">dilly bags</a> for carrying food and beautiful woven craft items. Here is an example of a dilly bag on display at the Bowali Visitor Centre:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is all the more surprising because the pandanus palm leaves are very tough and spiky on three sides, so it is no mean feat to reduce them into a weavable fibre:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as using the fibres to make dilly bags (and colourful crafts for tourists like me), the Aborigines used the pandanus palm for medicine, and they ate the pandanus fruit and seeds. Here are some bright orange cones which grow in clusters to form the pandanus fruit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was fascinated by the crafts made from pandanus fibres by Aboriginal women. There were many examples of earrings, baskets and mats made from pandanus fibres by the Aboriginal women for sale throughout the Territory - for some great examples, see the photos at the top of this post from the <a href="https://www.marrawuddi.com.au/">Marrawuddi Gallery</a> shop at the Bowali Visitor Centre in Kakadu, and this photo from NT Tourism displayed on a shop front in Darwin: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These craft items are labour intensive and take a long time to make, which is reflected in their price. You can purchase pandanus craft items both in their undyed state (hence they are the colour of dried grass), or dyed with naturally derived colours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was intrigued by the beautiful colours of the baskets and mats on sale, and purchased this lovely mat from the Marrawuddi Gallery by Aboriginal artist Ruth Gamarrawu: </span><br />
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If you visit the Territory, look out for the pandanus palms and the wonderful crafts made from the leaves of this prickly customer.<br />
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Update: There is a great article called Woven in Time in The Sunday Life magazine published 1 March 2020, which discusses harvesting and weaving pandanus in Kakadu. You can read it <a href="https://amp.watoday.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/sitting-down-to-do-crafts-helps-weave-the-stories-of-kakadu-20200226-p544i2.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />Cakelawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6682232408609700692.post-17300849418077799392018-04-06T17:49:00.003-07:002018-04-06T18:00:40.355-07:00The House of Dior Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last year, I visited the <a href="https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/the-house-of-dior/">House of Dior Exhibition</a> at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Hope you enjoy the tour!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This weekend, I visited the Edith Head & Hollywood Exhibition at Bendigo. Edith Head was a famous Hollywood costume designer who designed costumes for old Hollywood. She originally got the job without formal training by submitting sketches from her school students. However, Edith soon proved she was worthy of the appointment, and she went on to dress many leading ladies and gents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edith herself dressed in a signature style her whole life, including the round glasses that were tools of the trade and her distinctive helmet hair do. She made her own clothes on shades of beige, black, white and brown so that she did not upstage the stars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exhibition features original sketches, costumes, photos and film. A great example is the trilogy below featuring a black evening gown worn by Natalie Wood as Maggie in <i>The Great Race</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edith Head & Hollywood is a fabulous exhibition, and well worth seeing for lovers of film, costume and fashion. It is on until 21 January 2018 at Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria.</span></div>
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