Nov 11 - Starting in Bali, Indonesia: The Rice Fields

Nov 11 - Laguna luxury resort

Laguna resort. One of seven lagoon-type pools.  This one with a beach

Nov 13 - Ubud Monkey Forest

Nov 13 - Ubud jewelry maker.  Leslie purchased 2 earing sets made here.

Nov 14 - Embarking the Viking Venus

Nov 15 - Women of a Lombok village

Nov 15 - One of many Islamic temples

Nov 16 - Komodo Nat'l Park - young Komodo dragon

Nov 16 - Adult Komodo dragon about 9 feet long

Nov 16 - Komodo dragon on the move 

Nov 16 - Water buffalo: what Komodo dragons love to eat

Nov 17 - Sunset on Viking Venus

Nov 23 - Billabong Sanctuary, Townsville:  Leslie fulfills a dream

A Cassowary:  big, mean bird

Australian white Ibis

Blue and Yellow Macaw

Australian Brush Turkey

Feeding the crocodiles

Emu - up close and personal

Pink Cockatoo

Small Roo

Magpie Geese

Muscovy duck

Nov 29 - Sydney Arrival

Opera House Details

We have tickets to a play.

Dec 1 - Arriving in Akaroa

Alpaca Farm

Very rare striped Alpaca

I call this:  smiling Alpaca

Mail Run - the tour guide is actually delivering mail

Mail Run Route

A bay on the Mail Run

More scenic views on the Mail Run

View outside our motel 

Dec 4 - One of my favorites: view outside our hotel in Oamaru

You guessed it:  Steampunk

More Steampunk

Oamaru shopping district

More shopping

1934 Chevy truck restoration near our hotel

A black rose

Dec 5 - Nugget Point Lighthouse

4x4 Excursion - Catlins, Curio Bay

Chasing sheep on excursion

One of the views on excursion

Fur seals on excursion

Purakanuifalls

Feeding McLean Falls

Kaka bird outside our hotel room window

E Hayes hardware store, Invercargill:  houses the original Indian motorcycle

Burt Munro's motorcycle

Shell for Indian Scout - world's landspeed record

Going to Ulva Island from Stewart Island - yes the prop was 2 feet away from me...thank goodness for the window.

Weka bird on Ulva Island

Yellow Head

New Zealand robin

Saddle Back - very rare

Most famous:  'That Wanaka Tree'

Front of our hotel in Wanaka

View from our room - Wanaka

Wanka Lavender Farm

More lavender

Famous door on Lavender Farm

Lake Hawea

Blue Pools - Mount Aspiring National Park

More Blue Pools

The young jump off this bridge

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