Auckland, New Zealand (Day 2/3)
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Today was our first overcast/rainy day in New Zealand. And calling it rainy is really exaggerating, more like drizzle. We had planned to take the ferry to Devonport, a quaint Victorian village about aLue lisää
Today was our first overcast/rainy day in New Zealand. And calling it rainy is really exaggerating, more like drizzle. We had planned to take the ferry to Devonport, a quaint Victorian village about aLue lisää
It’s the last day of our cruise and we took our first and only Oceania excursion today. Bay of Islands is a tender port so we grabbed a tender with our group just after 9 o’clock and boarded aLue lisää
No formal plans today so we intended to get on the ship’s shuttle to Whangarei which is about 30 minutes away. As luck would have it, the shuttle was just about to leave so we managed to hop on.Lue lisää
We arrived in Tauranga this morning and went to find the tour we’d booked privately. It was a group of 11 with a couple from Baltimore and the remaining passengers from Australia. Our driver/guideLue lisää
We were to have visited Gisborne today but the Captain announced during breakfast that, because it is a tender port, it would be unsafe to do so today. He explained that six foot waves were expectedLue lisää
We arrived early this morning to Wellington and didn’t really have set plans until the afternoon. We took the shuttle into the city and walked around downtown and around the waterfront and went toLue lisää
We made our own arrangements today. We had prearranged transportation to wine country and had a reservation at a winery for lunch. Before we got in our van, we had time to explore the town of Picton,Lue lisää
This morning we arrived in Lyttelton, the port for Christchurch, New Zealand. It was a surprise to look out our window and see a sister ship, the Insignia, in port as well. It’s the ship we sailedLue lisää
Months ago when we were planning this trip, we discovered that New Zealand has a rare type of penguin, called the yellow-eyed penguin. I was determined to visit some. Up the peninsula from Dunedin,Lue lisää
We arrived in Dunedin this morning and had not booked a formal excursion. We had a couple of things we really wanted to do: first, to go visit the yellow-eyed penguins and second, to go to theLue lisää
Matkaaja Those portraits are very interesting
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I found it interesting that the Māori also had female chiefs
Matkaaja Yes!