More New Zealand... about time!

Here's some more recent scrapbook pages I've completed from my trip to New Zealand. I've been skipping around on doing some of the pages, so there are some gaps in the sequence, but eventually they'll be filled. Enjoy!

Missing layout from Day 3: Overview layout of Wai-O-Tapu geothermal area. Pictures on the left are of the colorful pools and sites.


Day 5: Driving from Ohakune to Wellington
Rainbow - page dedicated to one of the rainbows we saw on our drive to Wellington. We saw a few other rainbows later in our trip, but didn't take any pictures.


Wind Turbines - In Ashurst, we stoped to take pictures of these wind turbines on the hill.


Owlcatraz - On the way to Wellington we stopped at Owlcatraz to see the owls and other animals in the park. The owls were all named after famous people, like Owl Capone, Owlie McPherson, Owlvis Prestley (you get the idea). The owls are protected in NZ so we didn't get any pictures, but we got pictures of their other animals, like the NZ pigeon (it's twice the size of a US pigeon), the kune kune pig, land beasts, and more. Check out flickr for notes on the animals in the pictures.


Day 6: Ferry ride from Wellington, NZ on the North Island to Picton, NZ on the South Island. After the ferry ride, we drove from Picton to Motuake, where we had dinner at Hot Mama's, a unique organic/vegetarian/wheat-gluten free restaurant. The food was very yummy!


Coming soon there will be a 2-page spread of photos we took while on the ferry and along the mountain road between Picton and Motuake.

Day 7: Kayaking and Water Taxi around the Abel Tasman area.
Kayaking - we went on a guided kayak tour. The day was beautiful for kayaking! We started out with about an hour of kayaking, then we stopped on a beach to have tea and cookies before heading back to shore. The tides varied there so much due to the full moon that we returned to shore at a different place than we left, because the tied had gone out so much that the area where we left from was dry about 2.5 hours later.


Abel Tasman Water Taxi & Walk - after kayaking, we headed back to the office to each lunch. After lunch we boarded a boat to take a water tour of the surrounding coves and beaches. Towards the end we were dropped off on one beach and given 30 minutes to take the trail to the next beach over where we'd be picked up and taken back to the office. The blank pink space on this layout will eventually have journalling about the tour.


Day 8: Punakaiki
Beach Camp - on the monring of day 8, we walked around the beach at the camp where we stayed the night before in the campervan. We picked up tons of round smooth stones that we eventually brought back with us.


Also on Day 8 we saw the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes. I've printed the pictures from this park, but have yet to scrapbook them... they will appear here at a later date, in addition to a layout from Gillespies Beach which we stopped at near Fox Glacier.

Fox Glacier - on Day 9 we hiked on the Franz Josef Glacier, however, on day 8 we got to town early, so we drove on to Fox Glacier and Gillespies beach. Here's some pictures of the glacer from the road. On the way to the holiday park after the beach, tysen took tons of pictures as the sun set over the area. He even coaxed me out of the van and into the cold to take this picture of us.

** Totally in love with this layout. I bought the paper at Recollections the other day. It's from SEI's Paisley & Petals collection, and I loved how all the paper went together to create the layout!

Alright, that's all for now. I've still got quite a bit of this album to complete before Christmas when I hope to finish the album so I can show it off to family. I'm on day 9, and we spent 15 days there, so just a bit left to go. Wish me luck! Enjoy!