Well the flight over was pretty uneventful,apart from a couple of screaming kids. We did our best to drown out the noise and before we knew it we were flying over a very pretty at night Auckland city. We made our way to the motel Buzz had booked for us. It was a hot and balmy night in Auckland and the room had no aircon which was a bit rough bro. Got to sleep around 2am.
Met with Buzz and after a bit of mucking around with the bike and a breifing from Buzz & Sue we headed off into the city to play rubber necks for the day. We took a look a the massive marina with the most amazing yachts and boats, then took a harbour cruise around the harbour and some of the close by islands. The weather was awesome, so we decided a scuba dive was in order, so we booked in and soon were checking out huge sharks, manta & sting ray, lion fish, and some massive crayfish. It was bloody brilliant. We also saw some penguins and even an orca whale eating a seal.!!!!!!!!
OK so the diving bit was bullshit, we actually went to Kelly Tarltins aqarium which is a huge underwater aqarium built from the city's old sewrage network. It was really quite good and I am usually not a huge fan of this types of places. Money well spent.
Then it was a hot walk to check out the skytower....the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. The view was brilliant, but my vertigo wouldn't allow me walk on the glass walkway. Sam had no problem and neither did the loonies bungy jumping from it.
A quick spin up to one tree hill was next then we dcidied that we had seen enouugh of the city and headed north to find somewhere to stay. This proved harder than we thought it would be and after trying about 20 different places, have ended up in a little place called.Kaiwaka. Straight out of 1960 it is but the rooms are clean and cheap and the beer at the pub was cold. More tomorrow. (internits allowing)
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