Day 2 in Auckland - Walking down to the water from Lucas' place. This is looking out into Mission Bay, a nice beach area straight ahead and shops, bars and restaurants behind me.
We were going to go to Rangitoto island but we missed the last ferry to the island so we decided to go to the museum and soak up some culture. This picture is on the way to the museum which is located in the heart of Auckland in the center of a large park (Auckland Domain).
Me and some flowers. This is a botanical garden in the Auckland Domain. Saw my first banana tree and some other very tropical flowers, all and all it was very beautiful.
Lilly pads in a pond. I wanted to see if I could run across, bouncing from pad to pad without getting wet but then I thought that would not be the best of ideas.
A jungle within a trellis structure, it was very cool and damp. The large column looking plants are really fern trees which look just like northwest ferns just with big column like trunks.
A different view of the same place.
The Auckland Museum on top of the hill in the middle of the park. To the right a large open field area where tons of little kids were playing flag rugby.
This a view from the front gate of the museum.
Again, another view from the gate of the museum and you can see Rangitoto Island in the background again.
This was a full replica of a sail boat used to fish in the South Pacific Islands ( Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia , Cook Islands, etc.).
This is a native Hut (more like a house). Each beam and column is painted or carved differently. The carvings and paintings are very beautiful. They use Abalone shells for the eyes of their statues. You can kind of see this in the next photo.
Typical statue with Abalone shells as eyes. This is carved into each of the column of the hut in the photo above.
A big croc skeleton, Yikes!!
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