A park of tiny buildings

Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens were not only filled with old trees carefully arranged over lush grounds, but small buildings.

Whitianga

Whitianga lay on the opposite side of the estuary from Ferry Landing. It was one of the bigger towns along the Coromandel Coast with a sizeable marina that appeared as if everyone in the town had a yacht.

To Gisborne and beyond

I drove to Gisborne after reading that houses had a distinctive Maori flavour but didn’t see much evidence of this even after an hour of searching. Instead I found an ugly statue of Captain Cook who set his greedy eyes on New Zealand and landed first at Gisborne.