I often start my pages by simply placing all the photos I want to use. I especially like to feature large photos (easier to see with my less-then-best eyesight). I decided to mostly keep things as placed, just adding some frames and transfers to pop out the front photos.

Anna Aspnes ArtPlay Palette Moorlands and Globetrotter (just a bit of background paper and texture, plus word strips)
APP Oasis (button)
Scenic Word Art 1
APPs H2O, Sunkissed, Salty Living (waterfall word art cluster)
APP Glacial (charm)
Lost track of where the threadz came from.

Journaling:
It was rather cold and cloudy, but we were there to hike, so out we went, wearing all our clothes and armed with the information sheet from the hotel. The first track we chose was to Taranaki Falls, a roundtrip loop of 6 km. By the time we got to the falls it was clear and beautiful. The track was through beech forest and over heathered bogs, passing small falls and streams spanned by little bridges. I loved the purple heather, too bad it is not native. Perhaps they should ask the hikers to each pull out a little bunch. The falls are known as a punchbowl type, water descends in a constricted form and then spreads out in a wider pool, 20m high. We were able to climb down to the base.
In New Zealand they call this tramping and it seems everyone does it. Remember the groups of high-school students? And these tracks, miles and miles of them, are graveled and groomed and signed to perfection. They are
serious about their tramping
in New Zealand.