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AllieMark: Colorful duck at a lake in Whanganui
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AllieMark: Mark attracting a foul crowd
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AllieMark: Geese
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AllieMark: Allie doling out bread
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AllieMark: Begonias
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AllieMark: Inside the Wintergarden in Whanganui
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AllieMark: Yellow and orange begonias at the Wintergarden
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AllieMark: Mosiac glass mask in the garden
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AllieMark: Checking out the art in the garden
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AllieMark: We stopped by a glass studio and watched artists at work
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AllieMark: The first time we set up our tent, and it was raining buckets
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AllieMark: Dinner with a side of veggies, the NZ standard cauliflower, broccoli and carrot
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AllieMark: Allie's first Black Mac on this NZ trip - her favorite beer
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AllieMark: Mt. Ngauruhoe, aka LOTR's Mt. Doom
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AllieMark: Mt. Ngauruhoe
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AllieMark: Tongariro Crossing Track sign
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AllieMark: Geared up and ready to walk, with the help of some Advil
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AllieMark: Pretty purple wildflowers on the trail
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AllieMark: History of the Tongariro Crossing
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AllieMark: And so we set off, with a few hundred other folks
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AllieMark: Waterfall
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AllieMark: Strange colors in the water, likely algae
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AllieMark: Mark and Mt. Ngauruhoe
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AllieMark: Looking at recent lava flows off Mt Ngauruhoe, within the past 150 years
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AllieMark: Allie relies a lot on her walking sticks, because she is seriously sore from climbing Mt. Taranaki
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AllieMark: A side trail took us away from the hordes and to this waterfall at Soda Springs
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AllieMark: Stream, Allie, Mt. Doom
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AllieMark: Red red volcanic rock
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AllieMark: A rare shot of camera-carrying Mark on the trail
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AllieMark: Happy hiker Allie