Wellington

Last week Dave spent four days at a conference about 20 minutes north of Wellington. He was fighting the flu all week, so he didn't take a lot of pictures, but here are a few. First, a reminder that Wellington is the capitol of New Zealand, its second largest city, located at the southern end of the North Island. It takes an hour and 15 minutes to fly there from Dunedin. The conference was held in a barracks left over from WWII which originally housed US military officers.

Looking south from the old barracks, they could see Wellington. In the next picture, those hills in the far distance are the hills around Wellington and the lighter patch below the hills is the downtown.

Right below the barracks was the Hutt River, with a golf course on the other side of the river. Spring is just coming to New Zealand, with a few early spring flowers out and little buds on some trees.