Motat
I went to the MoTaT transport museum today. fantastic place — huge, 19 Hectares, although large parts of that didn’t really have much to do with anything.
I saw a bunch of real steam engines working, and had a good long chat to the bloke running them. they have a large pump house that used to be involved in pumping water for Auckland on site, and are in the middle of restoring it’s engine, and it’s huge.
it was well worth the UK#2.50 that I payed to get in as a student.
I also bought a may of NZ today, Auckland is really complicated with inlets everywhere.
November 19th, 2007 at 1321
Get out of Auckland immediately! It’s one of the most boring bit of NZ! It is worth it to go up their pahllic tower for the views by the way.
If you are going north or east before going south, Wakapapa (pronounced fack-a-papa!) is full of hippies, The Bay of Islands is full of islands and early NZ history, and the Coromandel peninsula is full of hot spring beaches and nice views.
Well impressed you managed to stay out of “the slammer” in the xenophobic states.
When are you going to photograph a kiwi?