Discovery Online, Picture of the Day: Gallery
Photography by Susan M. Ogrocki
January 2000: New Zealand
Flowers in the sunken gardens in Napier, New Zealand. The Endeavour The art-deco city of Napier Rik Orr demonstrates climbing on an indoor artificial rock wall.

The Spirit of New Zealand A lone piper plays on the beach in Wainui, New Zealand. A Maori traditional dance on the beach at dawn in Gisborne, New Zealand. A surfer catches a wave at Wainui Beach, just outside of Gisborne, New Zealand.

Sunset over Gisborne, New Zealand. An orca whale swims in the Bay of Plenty off New Zealand's North Island. White Island, an active volcano off the northern coast of New Zealand, steams into the Bay of Plenty. A Maori warrior joins in a feast on sacred grounds of a Maori meeting house in Gisborne, New Zealand.

This cemetery is in Te Whakarewarewa (the Thermal Village). A rainbow outside of Wairoa on New Zealand's North Island. These basketball-sized fumaroles emit steam at the Craters of the Moon. A dolphin surfaces near shore in the North Island's Bay of Plenty.

Sightseers gather to watch the power of Huka Falls on New Zealand's longest river, the Waikato, located on the North Island. Tourist Lim Jae Sung of South Korea takes the 150-foot plunge at Taupo Bungy over the Waikato River on New Zealand's North Island. On a farm near Nelson on South Island, an English Leicester sheep eyes the photographer, while others seem content to walk away. Ross Gerry of Nelson, New Zealand, attempts to get his butterfly kite aloft at the ninth annual Nelson Kite Festival.

The town of Picton, whose ferry terminal serves as gateway to New Zealand's South Island, lies nestled in the hills. Dandelions line the path to MacKinnon Pass at 3,500 feet along the Milford Track hiking trail in Fiordland National Park. A helicopter flies over MacKinnon Pass along one of the most extensive hiking trails in New Zealand. A weary Bruce Gavin rests alongside the 10-mile marker on the Milford Track.

A fur seal on the rocky coast of the Point Kean seal colony near Kaikoura, on New Zealand's South Island. The Purakaunui Falls in the Catlins District of the South Island. A young yellow-eyed penguin seeks attention from an adult on the South Island's Otago Peninsula. The house stands straight; it's the road that's slanted, and in fact it is the steepest road in New Zealand.


Tautuku Beach, as seen from Florence Hill Lookout in New Zealand's Catlins District. A kea lands on a hiker's backpack atop MacKinnon Pass. Milford Sound, in the Fiordland region on New Zealand's South Island.
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