God's Amazing World

This world is filled with beautiful and amazing sights. My husband and I recently took a trip to Australia and New Zealand, where we saw some fantastic scenery while we hiked. Here's a photo of us at Kata Tjuta near Uluru or Ayers Rock, Australia. This is central Australia, where the climate is arid, although we had rain in the evening while we were there.

Here I am with a koala bear. Isn't he cute? I also got to feed some kangaroos. One kicked me because I didn't get the food out fast enough. Here she is with her baby in her pouch. The baby's head is right behind her front arm.

 Here are some fantastic waves on the southern shore of Australia along the Ocean Road.

We also saw some beautiful water falls. I'll share just one from near Lorne, Australia.

In New Zealand we saw some incredible mountains and seashores. In so many places the mountains come right down to the water. The Remarkables, near Queenstown, NZ,

are in the background of this photo.

This next photo was taken in Milford Sound, which is really a fjord. We saw fjords in Norway last year, and I can say that they looked very similar. There are seals on the rock. 

We hiked to the edge of a glacier. We were supposed to do a heli-hike, but the weather was too bad for the helicopter to fly to the glaciers. Here is the tip of the glacier. This is as close as we got.

We hiked to the top of Mt. Victoria in Wellington, NZ. This is a photo I took from the top.

This photo is from Abel Tasman National Park on the north end of the south island in NZ.

Here I am hiking through the Redwoods in New Zealand with the umbrella I bought in Boston last year at Christmas when it was raining during our visit.

This is a photo of one of my favorite hikes along the coastline in New Zealand. We walked along a path that hung right on the edge and looked down on the rocks below.

This is only a small fraction of the photos I took. If you're interested in the other photos, I've been posting them on Facebook. You can view them here.

Do you like to take photos and share them when you go on a vacation or holiday, as they say in other parts of the world?

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Merrillee Whren is the winner of the 2003 Golden Heart Award presented by Romance Writers of American. She is married to her own personal hero, her husband of forty-plus years, and has two grown daughters. Connect with her on her Facebook page and sign up for her newsletter.