Rotorua: Redwoods Treewalk

Ever since moving to New Zealand from England, I have been waiting for the opportunity to explore all the beautiful landscapes this country has to offer. Last month, I finally had the chance to go on a fantastic roadtrip around the North Island with my partner.

Our first stop on our 17-day journey was the breathtaking Rotorua. In this post, I share my favourite photos of our visits to Redwoods Treewalk, a fantastic forest of tall and proud Sequoia sempervirens trees, originally from California.

Enjoy!

More Auckland

Upon returning to Auckland from New Caledonia (see my blog post on it here), I paid a visit to both One Tree Hill on Cornwall Park, and the Auckland Zoo. The images below include my favourite images from the air, as well as portraits of some of the zoo animals I encountered on my visit.

New Caledonia

This year I spent two months living and working in New Caledonia, where I studied New Caledonian crows. These incredibly intelligent birds use tools in the wild to retrieve grubs from crevices in trees. Our work with them involves catching them in the wild and training them in captivity for a few months out of the year. They surprised me with their fast learning and incredible flexibility to solve problems.

During my time in New Caledonia I also had a chance to check out a few touristic spots, including a paradisiacal deserted island, a beautiful double waterfall, and a luxuriant tropical forest. The trip involved a fair bit of bird watching. Below are some of my favourite images of the wildlife and landscapes of New Caledonia's Grande Terre.