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I'm doing a bit of traveling in Australia and New Zealand. Started in Australia to visit family in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. All photos taken with my phone.
As befits a subtropical climate, plenty of plant and insect activity in Brisbane during winter.
We had sunny weather for our day trip to Noosa.
We had some showery weather for the first few days on the Gold Coast.
However, the rain meant the rainforest of the hinterland was very verdant and the waterfalls were flowing.
Stayed in Burleigh Heads. Lots of fresh produce from the land but a lot of the seafood comes from New Zealand?
The weather improved by the end of our stay.
I'm currently in Wellington and will have some photos to post from here before heading off to Queenstown next week.
I'm doing a bit of traveling in Australia and New Zealand. Started in Australia to visit family in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. All photos taken with my phone.
As befits a subtropical climate, plenty of plant and insect activity in Brisbane during winter.
We had sunny weather for our day trip to Noosa.
We had some showery weather for the first few days on the Gold Coast.
However, the rain meant the rainforest of the hinterland was very verdant and the waterfalls were flowing.
Stayed in Burleigh Heads. Lots of fresh produce from the land but a lot of the seafood comes from New Zealand?
The weather improved by the end of our stay.
I'm currently in Wellington and will have some photos to post from here before heading off to Queenstown next week.
Now those photos are the way an ideal winter is supposed to look like IMO
I'll post these next even though they're out of chronological order. We went to the test match last night where a valiant French side succumbed to a rather sloppy All Blacks squad who were helped by some very questionable officiating. New Zealand won the game but the French won the hearts of the crowd.
Approaching Westpac Stadium.
There was rain before the game but it stopped about an hour before kickoff. Perfect weather for a football game; temperature was about 10°C.
OK, here come some photos from my time in Wellington.
First day was rather rainy but that seemed like a rather fitting introduction to this oceanic city.
The next day started clear and bright affording good views.
One of the few deciduous trees around town.
The botanic gardens were beautiful.
The weather clouded over again by the time we made it to Zealandia. Evidently almost all of New Zealand's native forest has been cleared but some of it was spared here.
Nice photos. I've got similar ones still on my phone from walks around Binna Burra and Mt Tamborine, back in May. Burleigh Heads was the closest beach, so went there a few times.
Wellington weather looks like here today. Didn't know Karori had changed it's name to Zealandia. Almost all of NZ's lowland forest was cleared (although the South Island kept much more). There was a lot of hill country, and subalpine forest that was never touched. A shame NZ lost so many of it's birds -must have been something else.
I love the native tree ferns in Wellington! They look awesome
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