Sunday, April 19, 2009

Wellington

We headed to the south end of the North Island, to Wellington, after a wonderful night in Dawson Falls.


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We spent a couple of nights in the Wellington area, in Hutt Valley. This gave us time to go in to Wellington for a day of sight seeing. We spent our day in the New Zealand Museum where we were most interested in the Maori exhibit, to learn about some of the history of this residence, the are descendants Polynesian culture and have been inhabitants of New Zealand since about the 1200's. There were several tribes that migrated to different parts of the New Zealand Islands. Their art is fascinating and I am sporting a new necklace that Holly got me for my birthday that is of Maori design.
We also spent several hours at the Wellington Botanic Garden before headed back to our room at the Holiday Park, we don't camp out every night.
Wellington


The next morning we had to catch a ferry from Wellington over to Picton on the South Island. Of course, since it was early morning when we got to the ferry, there was time form pictures of the sunrise. Sunrise and Sunset pics are becoming a trademark picture for me.

Picton Ferry from Wellington

1 comment:

rainshine said...

if it's not too much trouble could you bring me back a dolphin?