Sunset at El Segundo
Sewage farm towers and cactus plant
Cactus garden
Joshua Tree National Park
Desert trail
DeAnza Springs, south of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Cacti at sunset
McCain Valley Rd, near Anza-Borrego Desert state park
Cliffs in evening light at La Jolla
Namuamua, Fiji
Looking over Navua River in morning mist
Navua River, Namuamua, Fiji
Wainuta waterfall
Near Namuamua, Fiji
Boat taxi, Navua River
Fiji
Fijian islands
Sunset from Erakor's bar/restaurant
Vanuatu
Tropical downpour in the lagoon
South Pacific 'Christmas tree'
Actually the flame tree
Batman
Actually a flying fox, Tanna
Vanuatan girl with grass garland
At offical opening ceremony of waterfall tourist trail
Dancers
At the official opening ceremony, where we were the inaugural tourists
Rainbow from viewpoint on waterfall trail
Outrigger canoe, White Beach, Tanna
Traditionally dressed Vanuatan girl
At cultural village
Tanna, Vanuatu
Viewpoint from jeep track, Tanna
Yasur volcano smoking in the distance
Scenic toilet on slopes of Yasur volcano
And a rainbow!
Eruption of Yasur volcano
These happened every 5-10 minutes with a loud 'boooom'
South Pacific beach
At White Beach Bungalows, Tanna
Fisherman on reef
Near White Beach, Tanna
Auckland Tower and CBD
Rangitoto
With long white cloud
Summit of Pigeon Mountain, Auckland
A small extinct volcano close to where we lived in 1994
Auckland CBD
From high speed ferry to Waiheke Is
Onetangi beach, Waiheke
Rotota
Central North Is, NZ - reservoir on Waikato River with hot springs
Pohutu geyser
The most famous one at Rotorua
Coastal walkway, New Plymouth
With Paritutu and Moturoa Is
Multi-coloured waterfall
At New Plymouth Festival of Lights, Pukekura Park
Big waves from New Brighton Pier
Near Christchurch, NZ
Boulder Bay
Near Christchurch - good hunting ground for paua shells
Sea lion, Moeraki
At Fleurs Place, a fish restaurant where the fishmonger was working outside and throwing offcuts to the seagulls and sea lion
Penguin family, Katiki Point
"What should we do with our adolescent penguin?"
A Moeraki boulder
Dinosaur egg or what?
NZ sheep family
Canterbury Plains
Dry valley near Opihi River
With historical Maori rock art to be found on the cliffs
Sunset at Fafa, Tonga
Being abandoned on uninhabited island
Malinoa Is, about 45 minutes by boat from Fafa (just visible in the distance)
"Paul's island"
aka Malinoa, with white tern (the bird)
UCSB lagoon at sunset
University of California at Santa Barbara, surely one of the prettiest campuses around?