Everywhere you look in this small country gives rise to praise the Lord for His wonderful creation! As we traveled to visit friends and family around NZ we were able to see some iconic places... what a treat! We feel spoiled by God! 💙 Enjoy some of our favorite spots:
Pilot Bay at Mount Maunganui
Fergusson Park, one of our most favorite local spots to get close to the water
Papamoa Beach at sunset looking towards the Mount
Gisborne port and Kaiti Hill - my old home town
Waikanae beach in Gisborne
Mount Ruapehu (middle of North Island)
Sheep and cattle all over the countryside
Foxton beach on the west coast of the North Island
Wellington bay
Estuary in Tauranga - 9km track took us 2 hours to walk
Lake Taupo
NZ has the best meat pies... this is a typical fast food lunch, enjoying it at Lake Tekapo (South Island from here on down)
But we loved Lake Pukaki more than the famous Lake Tekapo
The Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu (an old steam boat that now gives tourists a ride across the lake to what used to be a sheep station)
View of Lake Wakatipu from atop Queenstown Hill: it was a 5km hike up
Papatowai Beach in the Catlins
Bush walk somewhere in the Catlins
Cathedral Cave from inside
Cathedral Cave from outside
Petrified forest at Curio Bay (lots of petrified logs and tree trunks strewn around in the rock)
Southland is famous for its Blue Cod
We saw one Yellow-Eyed Penguin come in from the sea at Curio Bay
I never tire of seeing the sheep
Purakaunui Falls
Nugget Point (straight out from there you'll hit either the tip of South America or Antarctica)
The view of Waihola lake from our friends back door
Moeraki boulders
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We loved the time spent (not enough!) with our church at the Mount... here's a pic from Wednesday prayer time. 💚
