Auckland Botanic Gardens

We started up by the Visitor Centre, meandered happily through the Edible Garden, descended down into the Arboretum, picked up the Puhinui Stream Forest Trail, hopped over a style into Tootara park, paused to watch a squabble of brightly coloured parakeets, then climbed

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Art in Strange Places

A postcard from Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana: The trail weaves over undulating land, circling around lakes, dropping down into native bush and twisting up high into a Kauri canopy. There is all kind of art on show, from the Bauhaus aesthetic to installations reminiscent of Banksy.

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