Auckland

Our final supper on the ship was at the buffet and afterwards we packed. Caro wanted to see the main show but I didn’t, so she went by herself. 

We both actually had a good nights sleep and were at our final breakfast about 0700. 

We left our room shortly after 0800 and within a maximum of 20 minutes we were cleared through customs into New Zealand ( we had filled in the customs form using the app).  

We walked to the hotel (uphill quite a bit-puff puff) and left our bags in storage until we officially checked in later in the day. 

We had heard that the Auckland War museum was great so we walked a couple of kilometres over to it. We weren’t there for the war info but instead for all the Māori and South Pacific items. 

A huge bonus for us was the natural history section which had replicas of some of the extinct (or still with us ) animals from the area. 

It also had a section that was about volcanos.  In this area was a house set up to experience a realistic volcano eruption as if you were inside the house. So interesting. 

After that we walked back downtown in time for our 1400 hrs walking tour.  The fellow was very experienced but honestly , too much Māori creation

With the tour over we spent a little time shopping before walking back to the hotel and checking in. 

We really over ordered our supper

24,000 steps and almost 15 kilometres; time to take a break in the room!