Our AirBnB is located next to the restaurant "Wildfire" and we have been enjoying the scent of cooked meats for days now. The smell was working nonstop on our subconscious telling us that we need to eat more meat. We thought we were going in for a quick hamburger but since it was Saturday they were only serving the all you can eat meat menu. We looked at each other doubting if this was what we should do but the smell was so good! Needless to say we took our seats and let the chow down begin. Leslie put in a good effort but she had to bow out after an hour. I kept on going so I could try all of what was offered. That means I had to keep eating after the pork, the sausages, the chicken thighs, the beef sirloin, the lamb, and the beef rump. I still wanted to try the calamari, them green lipped mussels, the mushroom pasta. Once that was done, so was I. After that we needed to take a walk so we went back to the apartment to get our sunglasses and then walked around the Princess Wharf. That worked so we kept on going past the Maritime Museum, over a pedestrian drawbridge, and to a new part of Auckland. There were lots of bars and restaurants and people to fill all these places. We kept on walking to the Silo Marina, named for all the silos still on this location. Here we saw the super yachts! Oh my!
I am foolishly wearing a white shirt
More meat please
The kitchen is cooking
Chicken thighs, the best cut of chicken
Calamari rings for everyone
Mushroom pasta
A couple of chow hours and it is time to go
The sun is out!
This island caught the rays of the sun and it lit up all green
Navy boats
I wonder which island this one is, maybe Motukorea
The beer mobile...we will see this later filled with drinkers
This is a good explanation of why New Zealand beat the USA in 1992. The diagram of the New Zealand ship is on the left
There are seatbelts on this boat
A fun way to decorate a pillar
Yes this is indeed a yacht
A draw bridge for pedestrians
Nicely decorated buildings
Sculpture or an antenna array
A whole lot of stairs and platforms next to nothing, connected to nothing, hmmm?
The huge masts in the distance are calling to us
A huge wooden bench
This giant yacht, 183 feet long is the Aquarius. These were the huge masts that beckoned us on.
Up up up it goes
They have a pillow room
Two wheels on the deck
Only one deck hand that we can see
Too big to get it all in a single picture
So very sleek
It is brand new, only just recently delivered to its owners
Next door is another big yacht
A common myna bird, an introduced bird, we saw one like it in the Seychelles
Tanks for all the fun
The people have arrived for some fun
This silo also lights up
The beer wagon has made it down to the bars!
Kelp Gull
The bridge is up
Two sailboats came by to slide under the bridge
The bridge is coming down
ASB...any smore beer?
Closed and open for pedestrians
Sun set and we are returning
It has been 216 Days since we began our Migration
