DownUnder Trip - Part 1 - Trip Introduction & Cook Islands
Jun 17, 2019 16:06:15 #
We visited DownUnder in the fall of 2015 on a mega-self-drive spanning 54 days and covering about 10'000 km: visiting 2 Pacific Islands, a slice of Western Australia during its wildflower spring blossoms and New Zealand from Bluff at the very bottom to Cape Reinga at the very top. The timing of the trip was chosen to catch the height of the wildflower season in Western Australia and hence was a little bit early for the lower part of New Zealand.
Overall, this was an exciting trip with plenty of photographic opportunities that took me the better part of a year to whittle down, post-process and annotate. That, and the fact that we continue to travel extensively, which limits the time for working on the albums, explains why I post this trip with a considerable delay.
I will present a rather lengthy series on the different trip components in chronological order - hopefully some of you will enjoy the experience.
On this first post, I provide an overview map of our flights and start to introduce the Cook Islands.
I recommend using the Downloads.
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Overall, this was an exciting trip with plenty of photographic opportunities that took me the better part of a year to whittle down, post-process and annotate. That, and the fact that we continue to travel extensively, which limits the time for working on the albums, explains why I post this trip with a considerable delay.
I will present a rather lengthy series on the different trip components in chronological order - hopefully some of you will enjoy the experience.
On this first post, I provide an overview map of our flights and start to introduce the Cook Islands.
I recommend using the Downloads.
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1 - DownUnder title page
(Download)
2 - Flights map
(Download)
3 - Cook Islands title page
(Download)
4 - Circular road on Rarotonga, the Cook's main island, total length 32 km/45 mins drive
(Download)
5 - Our Air New Zealand aircraft approaching the Rarotonga airport
(Download)
6 - Avarua - Aircraft just prior to landing - seen from a favorite beach hang-out
(Download)
7 - Avarua harbor
(Download)
8 - Avarua coast
(Download)
9 - Palm-frond-infused glass of white wine - the ultimate in relaxation
(Download)
10 - Info on the Cook Islands
(Download)
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Jun 17, 2019 20:15:39 #
UTMike wrote:
Quite the tour!
Thank you Mike - I hope you are going to enjoy some of the upcoming pictures - it was a very interesting trip.
Jun 17, 2019 20:59:43 #
Nice series of a place few of us will ever visit. Looking forward to the next installment.
Jun 17, 2019 22:24:05 #
repleo wrote:
Nice series of a place few of us will ever visit. Looking forward to the next installment.
Thank you repleo and yes, some of the places in this series are quite out of the way - I hope you will enjoy seeing them.
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Jun 18, 2019 15:21:06 #
I look forward to the complete series. I have visited New Zealand twice and Australia once, but it's not enough.
Jun 18, 2019 15:37:56 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I look forward to the complete series. I have visited New Zealand twice and Australia once, but it's not enough.
Welcome David - you are in for a "long one". it definitely is beautiful down under, we have visited NZ 3 times, with overlaps, and Australia also 3 times, but always in different areas. Western Australia, particularly with the wildflowers, is quite spectacular.
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