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Circumnavigating New Zealand — Wellington Botanic Garden,

Wellington Botanic Garden

There isn’t a whole lot to say about flower images, especially when one is as botanically ignorant as I. So, let’s just show some flowers today. Click on any image below to enlarge and bring up today’s slide show:

Circumnavigating New Zealand — Wellington Botanic Garden, Strolling downhill from Kelburn

Wellington Botanic Garden

You’re going to be seeing a lot of the Wellington Botanic Garden over the next several weeks, interspersed with other sights around Wellington, New Zealand. But this week’s articles will be of a visual nature concentrated specifically on the beauty to be found within the botanic garden.

Wellington Botanic Garden — the Herb Garden

As such, this week’s articles will be light on text (I hear you cheering) and heavy on imagery.

Wellington Botanic Garden

But n...

Fun Photo Friday — Circumnavigating New Zealand; Wellington Favorites 2

Wellington Reflections 1

Time for more Wellington Fun Photo Friday Favorites:

Circumnavigating New Zealand — Wellington Botanic Garden, Flowers galore

Wellington Botanic Garden

Well, here we are in the Wellington Botanic Garden. I’m no horticulturalist, so don’t ask me what you’ll be looking at today. Just click on any image in the gallery below to enlarge the image and bring up today’s slide show. Enjoy!

Circumnavigating New Zealand — Wellington Botanic Garden

Overlooking Wellington from Kelburn funicular station

As you’ll recall from last Wednesday, we arrived in the hills of Kelburn overlooking Wellington Harbour via the Wellington Cable Car (funicular). From here we had a spectacular view of the harbor:

Wellington Harbour

Now it’s off on foot to the nearby Wellington Botanic Garden, but first we must pass a piece of history — a field artillery piece built in 1907 at the Friedrich Krupp AG factory in Essen, Germany. Yes, the infamous “The A...

Fun Photo Friday — Circumnavigating New Zealand; Wellington Favorites 1

Field Trip

Time now for some Fun Photo Friday favorites of Wellington, New Zealand:

“City to Sea” details



Fern 2



Te Ngākau Civic Square



“City to Sea” bridge woodwork art



John Plimmer and Fritz

Circumnavigating New Zealand — Wellington Cable Car

Wellington Cable Car (funicular) model

Another three minutes’ stroll north along Lambton Quay from Plimmer Steps (see Monday’s article) gets us to our next stop, the Wellington Cable Car. Despite the misnomer, this is in fact a funicular.

Wellington Cable Car entrance on Lambton Quay

So in we go to purchase our tickets for a must-do experience if you’re ever in Wellington. After a somewhat brief wait in line, we arrive to the lower station, which is quite colorful in its own right:

W...

Circumnavigating New Zealand — Arriving Wellington, 2019

“Fern 2” hanging above Te Ngākau Civic Square

Our next destination aboard Majestic Princess was Wellington, into which we arrived on 19 March, 2019 (we would return 10 March 2020, but more on that later in the series). On this trip Ursula and I traveled around on our own, and one of the stops we made this day was to Te Ngākau Civic Square at 101 Wakefield Street, just past the Wellington Central Library, 65 Victoria Street.

Wellington Central Library as seen from Te Ngākau Civic Square



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The Swedish Coronavirus Experiment has failed . . . miserably

Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency of Sweden

As we head into our darkest Covid-19 pandemic days to date, it becomes increasingly important to look beyond quacks possessing medical degrees offering up placebo solutions that wind up causing even more illness, misery, death, and, as a direct result, prolonging the resulting economic chaos. So much for that Hippocratic Oath stuff. And I’m referring specifically now to two quacks in particular — neuroradiolog...

Fun Photo Friday — Circumnavigating New Zealand; Christchurch favorites Cashel Street

Coat of Arms New Zealand on the Bridge of Remembrance

A last look at Christchurch:

In the Shadow of the Bride of Remembrance



Ice Cream Mural



A Van Named “Morris”



Remembrance Archway Framing Cashel Street



City Tour