With more boats per capita than any other city in the world, Auckland is appropriately known as the City of Sails. It is also known as one of the cleanest and most peaceful. Stately old buildings, restored to their Victorian elegance, proudly display their wrought iron balconies. Auckland was once the capital of New Zealand before it was considered Wellington to be a more suitable site. Even though it is no longer the capital, Auckland flourishes with more than 1 million residents, and it is the largest Polynesian city in the world.
We took an excursion to a family farm, which stood on 200 acres. We were free to wander around the house and gardens which had dozens of Fallow Deer. We were treated to a barbecue, sheep shearing and watched as a Border Collie rounded up the sheep.
We were then driven to the west coast to a Gannet colony and beautiful views of crashing waves and surfers.
I had an emergency appointment at 6.00pm with the local dentist, because I’d chipped one of my back teeth. He put a temporary filling in it and as it didn’t need numbing, I was ready for dinner. We had dinner in the harbour at The Waterfront; it was so nice to eat something other than ship food. Now we have yet another 4 days until Burnie Tasmania.
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