More Layouts!

Almost done with the scrapbook for New Zealand.. well, the pages with pictures. Next will come the overview pages which will include maps of our driving, pinpointing stops we made along the way, and summaries of what we did each day. That's project No. 2!

Anyway, on to the layouts!

Day 12:
Yellow-Eyed Penguins

Watching the yellow-eyed penguins come home was quite exciting. These penguins are quite shy and came ashore one by one, each one coming up about 20-30 minutes apart. It was annoying waiting for them to come ashore, but well worth the wait. We saw five penguins total, although it seems like more.

Day 13:
Otago Peninsula

Photos on the left page were taken at the Royal Albatross Centre... unfortunately, we saw no albatross as it as the wrong time of the year. Instead, we saw sea gulls, herons, and shags (or cormorants). The right page shows of photos from around the Otago Peninsula.

Moeraki Boulders

These boulders are on Koekohe beach in Moeraki. These boulders originally formed in ancient sea floor sediments during the early Paleocene some 60 million years ago and have been exposed through shoreline erosion from black mudstone coastal cliffs.

Day 14:
Willowbank Wildlife Park - still to come (way too many photos to crop - 28!!)

Day 15:
Images of Christchurch

Photos taken mostly on day 15 while walking around Christchurch. Some photos (DuxLux and metal statue are from day 14 when we went to dinner in Christchurch and did some tourist shopping!).

Botanical Gardens

We walked around Christchurch all morning before catching our flight out that afternoon. These are images from the Christchurch botanical gardens. I had lots of fun using the macro setting on my point-n-shoot camera capturing these flowers.