Leo Geary New Zealand Slides
Graphics and text © Carol Geary 1995-2001 All Rights Reserved. Journal of this trip, 1987-88. On this page the links and photos are all in one window. Alternatively, you can popup a new browser window for the photos. With the popup links, you can read the titles in one window and see the pictures in the other window.
1987
1-06. Nuclear free zone sign, Auckland, Mt. Eden.
1-07. Leo on bike against the sea.
1-08. Bend in road, in hills.
1-14. Preparing hang-glider, Bayley's Bluff, Dargaville.
1-15. Pilot, friend, and hang-glider. Don and Murray Wardell, Dargaville.
1-16. Glider over sea.
1-17. Glider coming back over sea.
1-18. Flat scene, mostly sky.
1-20. Leafy Waipoua river scene, like postcard.
1-22. Towering tree trunk-Kauri, in Waipua Forest.
1-23. Green rolling hills, a sheep.
1-24. Hokianga Harbor.
1-25. Russell-the Blue Ferry.
1-27. Road ahead filled with sheep. Day 15
1-29. Dark evergreen trees against sky and sea.
1-33. Church or school. Building has writing on it.
1-34. Couple. Coromandel
1-37. Another couple. Whitianga
2-01. Ocean, beach.
2-03. 2 bicyclers on road.
2-04. Birds up close. Gannets near Napier
2-05. Skinny guy on beach.
2-06. Beach, hills to left.
2-07. Richard, Caedmon, and other guys.
2-09. Road midway up range of bush-covered hills. (See also a QuickTime panorama.)
2-10. Richard with the Great Kiwi Beer on bike, building setting. Ng, near Rotorua (Oops, past that, bad guess by Carol)
2-11. Bushy green hills beyond water.
2-12. Grander hills beyond more lake.
2-13. Leo jokingly guzzling 3 beers, laid back on bike.
1988
2-14. People diving from large grey rocks into water. Pelorus Bridge, SI. Jan. 8, 1988
2-18. Leo running across a log.
2-19. Lovely coastal inlet, Frenchman's Cove, near Torrent Bay and Anchorage on Abel Tasman track.
2-20. Leo on one-person wide suspension bridge. Abel Tasman track, over Falls River, between Torrent and Bark Bay.
2-22. Forest above, boulders below.
2-23. Leo bare torso, close-up with mountain backdrop, not snow yet.
2-26. Getting craggy, mist from left, from up there viewpoint.
2-27. Leo kneeling with 4 guys. Geology marker in background.
2-28. Modest brown house with gorgeous front yard flowers up close.
2-29. Leo in cable pulley bridge car over Buller river.
2-30. River meandering through generous slopes strewn with long thin mists.
2-31. Dark river, roadway, and railing. Cave cut under bank.
2-32. Grand coast, rocks, surf, sea, and sky, Perpendicular Point lookout, W. coast.
2-33. Porarari River scene dominated by cliffs getting overgrown with bush.
2-34. Dark foreground field, middleground trees, but sunny peaks with white, afar.
2-36. Steaming pool in front of dense foliage under towering snow-covered crags.
2-37. Peaky ridges. Last slide processed in July, 1988.
3-01. Leo up close, in shorts on bike against bare but large hills.
3-02. Dark fore ground admitting some view of rugged, snow-covered crags.
3-03. Several mountain ridges,the farthest snow-topped and wreathed in mist.
3-04. Close to the snow-topped peak.
3-5. Rainbow rocks, 85K. Detail with moving reflection.
3-06. Past the previous snow-topped peak.
3-08. Leo in pool with snowed peaks above.
3-09. Mist spirit.
3-10. Tent pitched below mist spirit.
3-11s. Jaggedy outline of peaks at sunset.
3-12. Leo on post in brown landscape.
3-13s. Full moon near sunlit distant, fluted range over dark foreground.
3-14. Large lake, brown shores, snowy peaks, high clouds, dazzling light.
3-15. Leo & bike on flat road going off to left, Mt. Cook ringed in peaks afar.
3-16. Snowy peaks, close over dark chasm of foreground.
3-17. Mt. Cook, different view.
3-18. Mt. Cook, different view.
3-19. Mt. Cook, same as in next two photos.
3-20. Leo/Mt.Cook, not as good as next.
3-21. Leo/Mt. Cook. End of NZ bike trip. May 3 or 6.
Continued residence in New Zealand from Queenstown to Christchurch. For more photos, see classic paragliding pictures.
Entire bike trip journal, 1987-89
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