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Visitors are welcomed to the Tamaki Maori
Village, Rotorua and demonstrations include a reciting of the haka -
PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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After wandering around the various
demonstrations, visitors are treated to an excellent buffet meal -
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The Agrodome where many different breeds of
sheep are led in individually to take up their places on the stage -
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The sheep tend to sit quietly - but the
Cheviot resented the Romney eating from its dish - a series of head buts
took place and the Cheviot won - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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There is of course the inevitable sheep
shearing demonstration - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Five lambs are then brought in and children
are invited on to the stage to pet and feed them - PHOTOs Malcolm
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With the Merino taking pride of place, the
indoor part of the show ends with two Huntaway sheepdogs standing on the
back of the sheep - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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The outdoor part of the show - a Huntaway
working the sheep into the pen - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Rainbow Springs Kiwi Wildlife Park outside
Rotorua where Rainbow trout can be seen in the christel clear water -
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The spring flows through the park allowing the
ducks and the fish to swim freely. Special windows allow underwater
viewing - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Swans and parrots. The parrot is in a
walk-through aviary - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Giant ferns and two well camouflaged tuatara -
lizard-like reptiles unique to New Zealand - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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No trains at Otorohanga - New Zealand's
Kiwiana town - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Kiwiana (i.e. virtually anything originating
or unique to New Zealand)
ranges from Buzzy Bee - a child's pull along toy - to Marmite, kiwis,
pavlova and Sir Edmund Hillary. Many Kiwiana items are displayed in the Ed Hillary Walkway which leads from the
restored railway station to the District Library - PHOTOs Malcolm
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Search for Kiwiana in the town - including
Pavlova and Kiwi at Kiwiana Crafts - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Otorohanga's
main thoroughfare - Maniapoto Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Otorohanga
is also famous for the Glowworm Caves where visitors take to a boat to
view the light from the myriad of glowworms which hang from the ceiling
and resemble the Milky Way - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Unusual dwellings between Otorohanga and
Huntly - a boat with no nearby water, and a Bristol Superfreighter with no
nearby runway - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Still no trains at the entrance to a large
quarry (left); Huntly Power Station (right) which is
New Zealand's largest thermal power station - PHOTOs
Malcolm McCrow |
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