Gallery 3 | WanderLush

N E W Z E A L A N D

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

— Henry Beston

One Final Assignment

In 1995, planning to move to Seattle from Portland to focus on my new Black&White Portraiture business, I happily accepted a final assignment working as the Photo Editor for a Print Magazine Company in Portland, to write a story and provide images for one of our seven publications - our Consumer magazine, EcoTraveler. We spent three weeks traveling New Zealand, visiting Hostels, Hiking the Routeburn Trek, Visiting Milford Sound, Bungee Jumping, and swimming with Dusky Dolphins off the east coast of the South Island in Kaikoura - some of my favorite few hours of my whole life.

Kaikoura, on the South Island, to find the Dusky Dolphins

We swam with them in their own environment, gathering around us like happy dogs

Spinning and jumping, always just out of reach. Fair enough.

Made for one of the happiest experiences of my life. Thank you Dennis Buurman.

S O U T H P A C I F I C

On our way home from New Zealand, we stopped in Fiji in the South Pacific… well THATS a place we need to return…
so in 2000, we did.

Bora Bora just may be the most beautiful place on earth. The most beautiful place I’ve ever been anyway!

We traveled there with Peter’s brother and wife in spring 2000. The center island of Bora Bora is surrounded by a small archipelago surrounding it, where many "over the lagoon” cottages were built. Between, the “lagoon” was the most pristine chest-deep-for-miles ocean water, I’ve ever been in. It has a beautiful French Polynesian relaxed culture and it is just stunningly crazy that this beautiful place exists… I need to return for newer and better photographs!

The precious exquisite Lagoon of Bora Bora - 2000