Welly and last night on North Island
Today was our day in 'Welly', or Wellington.
We took a very convenient frequent bus 10 mins from our campsite and were in the centre of Wellington in about 1hour.
The day started dull and cool and we headed into the big modern museum at the waterside. This turned out to be disappointing. It is one of those ridiculous over designed spaces with no easy navigation around and no logical progression in displays. There was a lot of good stuff in the New Zealand and Mauri history but it was lost in the cavernous empty spaces. If you are travelling through Auckland I would visit the museum there and save your time in Welly for something else. However, I should mention the powerful Gallipoli exhibition which was very well put together and well worth a visit if you are interested. For me it was not what I was here for and the power of it left me feeling disturbed.
We took the remarkable Funicular /cable car up to the higher level of the town; certainly the highest and most impressive I have ridden.
The cable car took us to the summit of the botanical gardens and we took the downhill route through the gardens surrounded by mixtures of greens and textures in the plants and trees with the remarkable din of the insects chattering in the canopy.
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| a dull start across the bay |
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| Massive floating steam crane made in Scotland |
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| A sunnier bay after our museum visit |
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| Cable car leaving downhill to the city |
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| Insect making some of the noise |
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| Botanical garden |
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| Botanical Garden |
The museum was disappointment but we enjoyed seeing some of Wellington. The day was marred by difficulty eating gluten free (me) and trying to find somewhere suitable. In the end we returned to the museum café late afternoon where we managed to eat s snack.
The excellent journey planner at metlink.org.uk found us an express bus back to our site and an ice cream before 'servicing' the RV ready for an early start tomorrow heading for the ferry to the South Island.
Statistics: Miles today: zero; Miles so far: 764 ; Fuel added so far: 103.5 litres ; North Island; Time Zone: UTC +13 New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT )
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