Thursday, November 26, 2009

Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of NZ

November 22

And the Harbourside Market

– Wellington's oldest outdoor Sunday food market.  It was much smaller than the ones in Sydney and Hobart, but lots of fresh fruit, veggies, meat, olives, baking and buskers…

The Museum was remarkable.  There were lots of interactive areas for kids (and a few adults!!)  It covered a lot of ground and wasn’t just fossils and relics.  The center area was open up to the 6th floor which was good as a lot of the displays were a couple of floors tall.

It even extended outside to include plants & rocks

There were short movies, an earthquake simulator, a 3-D presentation and there was no admission charge.  (There really should have been!)  Outside Gerry found the earthquake precautions for the building

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A quick stop for a late lunch and people watching

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– the walk along the waterfront and the harbour itself are well used.  (I missed getting a picture of the skateboarders.)

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Then more walking and back to pack up for the Interislander ferry tomorrow.

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