Sunday, November 19, 2006

Whitireia Park

On Sunday I hiked around Whitireia Park -- one of the film locations for lotr. I'd guess they filmed some of the Rohan grassy plains scenes.



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A wheelchair rolling toward the cliffs.


This gull kept trying to drop "stuff" on me.


I shot more alien rock reference -- for Avatar.




I found a whale that had washed up on the beach.


It was barely breathing, but I was able to drag it back into the surf and out to sea -- with the help of the power cable.


After that, it was time to leave.




It was the kind of place a mad driver might careen his car off a cliff -- so I poked around. Sure enough, further down the coast, I found one:

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