New Zealand

 
I once spent a year in New Zealand with my family.  I was 14 years old, and Dwight D. Eisenhower was still President of the United States. A lot of tides have ebbed and flowed since then.  I still have a soft spot in my heart for the places I knew, and I still visit occasionally in the only way I can afford--by the virtual world.  Maybe I'll be able to return in the flesh, someday.
 
I have a few pictures from the present that I've put up below--some of them seem surprisingly similar in "view" to photos we took in 1959-60.  As I find comparative photographs from "the olden days," I'll include them; the comparisons are sometimes startling.  Unsurprisingly, New Zealand is contemporary and no worse off for it.
 Map Wellington, NZ  

We lived near Wellington in Kaiwharawhara, then a small suburb. My brother worked in a fleece warehouse at the foot of our road.
   
     Wonders of the web! Here's where my brother worked. We lived up the road seen at the bottom of the photo.
   Of course, I was not really aware of the parallels between the relations of the United States with various indigenous tribes, and those of various New Zealand governments various "tribes" of Maori. Kaiwharawhara was a Ngati Tama settlement. Who knows what that building buried.
   
     

If you look northwards on the map, you'll find Johnsonville, where my school, Onslow College is still located.
   
     This is scary -- I found it on the internet. My 1961 class photo from Onslow College.
   
Wellington Harbor  
   
   
   
   
   
   I snorkeled off the rocks and body surf here and in neighboring small bays. The water was cold!
   
   
 

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