If you got this with a location of the Northern Mariana Islands near the Phillipines or the date of May 3, I apologize.l.a slip of the cursor!! Aotearoa (ah-o-tay-ah-roa), Maori for Land of the Long White Cloud, New Zealand. We arrived on January 2. The flight was excellent. The most impressive part of the plane trip was the sunrise over the Pacific. The clouds turning from white fluff balls to pink and the eastern sky becoming bright with the fireball of a new d...

3 January: Our first full day found us walking the beach at Stanmore bay. The Pohutakawa trees also known as the New Zealand Christmas tree are still in bloom (see photo). The water is just a bit chilly, but we waded along the shore. At the end of the beach we saw two large sea birds called Shags sunning themselves on an outcropping of rock. Even though it is school holiday time, and today was a public holiday, the beach was uncrowded. As is always the case in NZ...

3 January: Our first full day found us walking the beach at Stanmore bay. The Pohutakawa trees also known as the New Zealand Christmas tree are still in bloom (see photo). The water is just a bit chilly, but we waded along the shore. At the end of the beach we saw two large sea birds called Shags sunning themselves on an outcropping of rock. Even though it is school holiday time, and today was a public holiday, the beach was uncrowded. As is always the case...

If you got this with a location of the Northern Mariana Islands near the Phillipines or the date of May 3, I apologize.l.a slip of the cursor!!Aotearoa (ah-o-tay-ah-roa), Maori for Land of the Long White Cloud, New Zealand. We arrived on January 2. The flight was excellent. The most impressive part of the plane trip was the sunrise over the Pacific. The clouds turning from white fluff balls to pink and the eastern sky becoming bright with the fireball of a ne...