Author: Dave Albeck
Bay of Islands
Walking and sailing the shore and the bay.
Protected: Bay of Islands – Family
Auckland, NZ
Not to be confused with Oakland, California (though pronounced the same). We hiked up Mount Eden, visited the zoo, and slept a lot.
Protected: Auckland – Family
Sea Turtles
Hatched at Chennai
Mahabalipuram
Carved temples on the way to Chennai
Protected: Turtles – family
Protected: Mahabalipuram – family
Pondicherry
This formerly French city is a bit run-down. A small historic district with statues of Ghandi, Nehru, and DuPleix, plus several colorful churches, suffers from the fact that the beach washed away.
The experimental utopian community of Auroville is nearby, so we paid it a visit. Auroville promotes “a life divine but with no religion”, but the road to Auroville is lined with temples, including a temple to a vengeful obstetrician named Perichitti.
