Rotorua

Almost every commercial tourist to New Zealand is taken to Rotorua. Doubtless to say, we took our visitors as well. This was taken when my sister Rose came to see us.

The Bath House (Rotorua Museum)
In the early part of this century New Zealand was famous for Rotorua's Bath House - the New Zealand government's first investment in the fledgling tourism industry.

Henry's travels: Rome

My little brother went on a long business trip to New York. I am waiting for his photos of the Big Apple. Meanwhile, these are his photographs when he went to Rome.

The Chain of St Paul

Ostia Antica.

The Forum

Maori Carving

The Maoris are very skilled craft men. Most of their carvings are sacred.

Leaves can be beautiful too

The top two pix belong to the same plant, the Canna genus, and the bottom plant is the Bird of Paradise. They are both in my garden.

Wheels: work men

Public Utility men working on the road side. They all wear the yellow or orange reflective vest.

UNITEC Institute of Technology

This is a tertiary institute with academic and work-relevant qualifications up to post-graduate level. This used to be called Carrington Tech. The name "Carrington" was derived from the name of the boundary road and was used to honour a pioneer surveyor general in New Zealand, Frederick Carrington.

I did a computing course in the 1980s.

There are modern buildings of course, but I am attracted to these thirty year old brick buildings.It has expanded from the original campus at Mt Albert to North Shore campus and Waitakere campus.

Monarch butterfly

One of the caterpillers has become a chrysalis.

My students who are so familiar with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, want to know if it will be at the chrysalis stage for two weeks. I told them to wait. It is very hard for little children to wait for two weeks.