Best of New Zealand ( January - February)

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Happy St Patrick's Day ... 


 Hello everyone, great to be back, it has been a couple of months, and I know there are some of you eagerly waiting for the New Zealand updates and pics, sorry that it has taken so long, my computer crashed and I thought I had lost all the photos, but thankfully they had been saved... so here we are ..
Auckland 

BNZ Group - January 24th -  15th February 2015 

BNZ Group - with John Forbes 

BNZ Group - with Richard Davidson

Dunedin Scottish Evening - with the "volunteers" 

Milford Road - Waterfall 

Milford Road 

Lake Pukaki - Mount Cook 

Church of the Shepherd - Lake Tekapo

Old Saint Paul's - Wellington

The wonderful Scottish Dancers

Cape Brett cruise - Hole in the Rock 

Auckland - Sky Tower 

Wellington 

Hokianga Harbour 

Copthorne Hotel - Bay of Islands 

Cape Brett Cruise

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