Holiday pics: River cruise and an Ent

[vilakins]

This is the last lot, until I spam you with photos of steam trains and Vilagrad Winery from our trip tomorrow.



You can go on a river cruise from the Aratiatia Dam to the Huka Falls. We were amazed to find Florrie was one of the passengers--and that she and her two friends were staying in the apartment we were in last year. Huh.


She was a game old bird, standing up in the bow for a good view with one of her friends.


Huka Falls from the river, with the jetboat in front


River bank with native flora


River bank with toetoes (pronounced toy-toy), those lovely plumey things


Ent in Tokoroa, a timber town on our way back. Well, we thought it was.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful area, from the drama of the falls to the quieter water and the river bank. What colours!

And Treebeard welcomes you to Tokoroa!

Thanks for the link to what happened to Florrie and Pearl. Amazing!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was a lovely river cruise; I'm sorry it took a whole year to find out about it and the rapids. We could have gone last year.