The city of sails - Auckland
The kid in Auckland
Room with a view
Vignettes of Lyttelton
Our favourite haunt
Wunder Bar!
The fisherman and the bartender
The bar tender at the Irish pub
Ever present gulls
When it rains in Lyttelton
Arriving in NZ. It had to rain. It always rains wherever I land.
Lyttelton
The berth in Lyttleton
Flag clouds?
The bollard on which Amundsen had berthed before setting out further south
Piece of wood, piece of history
George Bush? Our host
A communist in NZ? Merely the flag of a sunker Soviet ship
Lyttelton - "the little town with a large heart" - in the words of the Skipper
My jottings are brief, like a wayside flower, that passers by see, and do not remember - Tagore
I think this was a movie theatre
Gulls are the signature of a coastal town
The Blue Ensign in Christchuch
Sea scouts pay a call - and are soon captivated
Lyttelton in evening glow
If you have a DSLR, you never get to get on the other side of it
Enroute to Tekapo and Aoraki
The most beautiful church in the world
At Tekapo
Tekapo or Lucerne?
Man's best friend
Aoraki - Mt Cook
Mt Cook and Tasman Valley - It was in Tasman Valley that Sir Edmund Hillary practiced for his Antarctic Expedition
Sir Hillary, then and now.
Measuring upto Sir Hillary
How the Yemeni scarf rescued me in Aoraki
First time snow
The master mariners of NZ
Christchurch
Sails are an ever present theme
One of the moods of Lyttelton
The last supper
Peter the Great!
Shirly, standing tall
HE, The High Commissioner of India to NZ
The Departure
Adm Mehta (the High Commissioner of India to NZ) and Capt Jatinder Singh (Defence Attache of India)
Farewell!
Peter Rea - Our agent in Lyttelton
The staysail was my doing
Ratnakar, Peter and Merve on Merve's yacht - right after seeing off Mhadei
The Island has a story. Dig up!
Train to nowhere - MOTATO
Shooting the shooter
Richard Pearse seems to have built a flying machine before the Wright Brothers
This is funny
So true, its as if they had me in mind
Never knew there was an HMS Rajah
Aviation badges of NZ
I am too old for that!
MOTATO - Aviation
The gun turret of HMS Achilles (INS Delhi) which was gifted to NZ by the Government of India
HMS Achilles was later bought by the Indian Navy. She served many years as INS Delhi until she was decommissioned in 1979 - the year I was born. In 2006 I joined the new INS Delhi as WKO
The Naval museum at Auckland - Another dream come true
Auckland - City of Sails
Welcome to NZ!
Like Dad, like son
Lile dad, like son
