Lots of pictures!

Hey everyone! Sorry about the delay on the pictures.

The last few days have been really awesome. I've met a whole bunch of great people from Ireland and the UK, and we've been hanging out and doing lots of fun stuff. The internet places here all close around dinner time though so I couldn't get back on in time.

So, I'm still trying to work out the best way to get pictures up on here. The blogger way takes absolutely forever, and the pictures are really small. Today I'm experimenting with another way so bear with me. For now all I can do is link you to them and you have to click on each one. Still not the greatest way, I'm sorry!

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The sunrise from the plane as we were arriving in Auckland

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The view from my hostel room in Auckland looking out towards the downtown area.

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Someone doing a skyjump of the SkyCity Tower! The jump is 187 meters I think, and the building is over 300m. Pretty cool.

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Panorama shot of Auckland skyline from the fortified hills I hiked on the first few days I was here.

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The penguins at the Underwater World!

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The stingray going above me at the Underwater world on the clear roof walkway. So cool!

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Look, it's the whole Finding Nemo gang!

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A Maori marae meeting house, recreated inside the Auckland Museum.

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A close up of the carvings on the wall in the meeting house

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A view of Auckland from the top of Mount Rangitoto. The weather was sort of foggy so its' not very clear unfortunately.

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The island next to the volcano. Doesn't it look like Ireland mom? :P

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A view of the volcano from the boat going back.

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A three day old Kiwi! At the Native Bird Recovery Center in Whangarei

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Look, I found my very own right here in NZ! Sooo close with the spelling though.

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The view out one of the holes in the tunnels on the fortified hill, North Head. The tunnels I was talking about last week.

Ok, so those are the good ones from the start of my trip. Now back to the ones from the last few days.

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Climbing up the sand dunes to go sandboarding

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Baby seal on the beach, resting and waiting for it's mom to come back. Aw

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Jen from the UK, Nick from Kelowna!

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Connor and Ray from Ireland

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Playing on the huge inflatable slide at Adventure World!

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Connor and Ray battling it out on the jousting log.

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Ray on the trapeze! I did it once, but didn't even try to go for the transfer to the second swing...

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Roger and Fish from the UK, and Connor and Ray all singing karaoke, 'You've lost that lovin' feeling.' They were pretty good!

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Group shot!

That's all for now everyone. Hope you enjoyed the pictures, and let me know if this way of showing the pcitures is ok for everyone. It's kind of annoying having to click on them all isn't it?

Take care!