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New Zealand: Waitakere – Inside the Arataki Visitor Centre
You just never know who you might meet when you travel. This wooden sculpture of a male is inside the Arataki Visitor Centre and Himione Heketarere is carved on the bottom.
New Zealand: Waitakere – Views from outside the Arataki Visitor Centre
From the Arataki Visitor Centre in Waitakere, you can see the Hauraki Gulf (Pacific), Rangitoto, and north past Auckland city centre. If you gaze south past Auckland Airport, you’ll glimpse the Bombay Hills and west will lead your eyes to Manukau Harbour (Tasman Ocean).
New Zealand: Waitakere – Hotel Weta
Outside the Arataki Visitor Centre in Waitakere NZ, you can often see a local bug, the Weta in this hotel especially built for them. The second image is what they look like. Wetas are over 100 million years old (they knew the dinosaurs!) and haven’t changed much in all that time.
US: Seattle, WA – Seattle Architecture
Architecture doesn’t always spill out onto the roadway. Here’s a place in modernistic Seattle where it includes the road.
Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Black Beaver Falls
At the Agawa Canyon Park, the River Trail will take you to these high roaring Black Beaver Waterfalls. Wooden viewing platforms make it all easy and enjoyable.
Canada: Agawa Canyon, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Wearing Bridal Veil Falls on my Head
Often people take photos without realizing how things are lined up. Here the Bridal Veil Falls have been placed on my head as a bridal veil. No, I wasn’t getting married in Agawa Canyon Park.
Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Bridal Veil Falls in Agawa Canyon
At the end of the Agawa Canyon train ride, there are easy trail walks. Here the Bridal Veil Falls make for nice photography with reflections in the lake.
Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Picnic Tables at Agawa Canyon Park
If you want to get away from the crowds, here are 2 picnic tables for you in Agawa Canyon Park. Take the train ride up from Sault Ste. Marie and enjoy the peace and quiet.
