Sarah arrived on Friday night and brought with her some lovely weather, so we can actually say we've had at least one day of Summer weather now. Any show of sun here brings out the teenies with their weenie shorts and singlets but not me... the wind was stilly chilly!! but I did manage to get a good dose of sun and Sarah even a little burnt on her nose. Saturday we went to Petone and wandered along Jackson St, and Sarah had lots of fun taking photos of the buildings. We had lunch in my favourite cafe, Lemon Squeeze, before heading into town, where we spent most of the time shopping!!
Here is a photo of some of the public sculpture in the city... ball of koru (ferns) is suspended over a square near the performing arts complex.
Sunday we returned to the city and hired a double kayak and spent an hour paddling around the yacht squadron, avoiding getting run over by cray boats and the like!!! Lots of fun though. We then spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around Te Papa (I think we managed to see about 2 exhibitions - the place is huge!!!).
Today Sarah is braving it alone and finding out some more about travelling down South - working out bus passes and stuff. While she's keen to stick around Welly, I'm going to try and get her out and down South to see more of real NZ. This weekend I'm hoping to team up with her either in Nelson to do the Abel Tasman National Park, or perhaps further South to get down to one of the glaciers.... we'll see. :-)
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Just left a comment, but blogger lost it. That sculpture is cool. I thought it was some type of photoshop job. Had any more near-death experiences?
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