20190227 Lake Taupo
Impromptu boat cruise on Lake Taupo, and an even impromptuer visit to Whakapapa to get close(ish) to snow
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0: Tourist mode. On the road crossing from Bay of Plenty into Waikato.
1: Grassy hills.
2: Tree-topped hill.
3: Moo.
4: Clear water.
5: Really clear water.
6: Water is deeper than it looks, but not by much.
7: Quack.
8: Five minutes after stepping out of the car we're on a boat, and five minutes after that we're well on our way onto Lake Taupo.
9: Plane.
10: Woo chocolate!
11: Interesting optical distortion by air near the water's surface.
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13: Time to wine.
14: Not sure what I expected to see here. Magikarp maybe?
15: Another boat!
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17: Chekhov's mountains.
18: This was actually a great idea.
19: The purpose of the boat ride is revealed - rock carvings.
20: More rock carvings.
21: Rock carvings.
22: Rock carvings.
23: Rock carvings.
24: Some ugly bugger.
25: Stony lizard.
26: Someone blocking the view again.
27: Starting to depart.
28: Chelle and Claire blocking the view of the rock carvings.
29: Rock carvings.
30: Expensive houses scattered around.
31: That view is probably pretty expensive.
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33: Heading back to Taupo.
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35: Parasailing.
36: Parasailing.
37: Parachuting.
38: A black swan!
39: Back on land.
40: Back on the road, heading towards the mountains we saw earlier.
41: Those fenders don't look stock.
42: Mountains getting closer.
43: Mountains.
44: There's steam oozing out of that mountain.
45: This mountain is shy.
46: Oh, peekaboo.
47: That's a mountain.
48: Mountain.
49: Mountain.
50: Mountain.
51: The ski resort is about as far as we can go.
52: Cable car under construction.
53: It was a bit chilly. We did not dress for this temperature.
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55: Snow blowers?
56: Panorama.
57: Under construction.
58: Snow plows.
59: Snow plows.
60: Itty bitty plants.
61: Itty bitty plants. The brown things are its flowers?
62: An unusual landscape.
63: End of a sturdy cable.
64: Heading back down the hill.
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67: Flowers.
68: Flowers and bee.
69: Lake Rotoaira.
70: Someone's drone.
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72: Uh, Mooaaa. Or Baaooo.
73: Grassy hills.
74: Grassy hills.
75: Moo.
76: Trees.
77: Trees surrounding what I assume used to be a volcanic plug.
78: Treeeees.
79: Approaching sunset.
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