Festival of Lights part 1

13 years ago, we came to visit New Plymouth in summer after our varsity break.  The highlight for the trip was visiting the Festival of Lights at Pukekura Park.  We had very fond memories of the event.  This year, we made sure we bring the boys to our favourite park.  The lighting display is switched on each night from 8pm and on the first night there was also the Christmas in the Park at the adjacent Christmas bowl.

Below are some of my favourite pictures from our outing.

This waterfall changes colour every few seconds.

The Golden Bearing by Reuben Paterson. It is a sculpture of tree with leaves and trunk all painted gold.  It's nice to look at in the day time, but with the spotlight it looked even better.

 

We got to the Flock of Birds area (Black Light Area).  The boys really enjoyed this area as it glows in the dark.  The display looks to be a multi-coloured swallow tailed kites. 

We managed to catch the end of the Christmas in the Park held at the TSB Bowl area.  It was so crowded and the lines to use the rows of toilet was unbelievably long.

 

The jellyfish display in the Enchanted forest area.

 

 

The Poet's Bridge also features Cloud 9 -lighting installation encompassing giant bird nests, water droplets . 

 

 

View of the lake taken from Poet's Bridge