Day 5

Auckland is hot & busy and we've had a good day with a bus tour of the town this morning which took us to the Domain and around the harbour as well as down town where the waterfront as very interesting. There were literally thousands of boats - it seems that every 4 people here have access to their own boat and there were two cruise liners berthed. We then crossed the North Harbour bridge and visited Devonport. This afternoon we wentwith 4 others to the latest visitor attraction an underwater world and antartic encounter with a moving walkway through the fish tanks with sting rays and sharks swimming around. A snowmobile took us in amongst live penguins living in their proper conditions. Tomorrow we leave for the Bay of Islands. Lots of beautiful summer flowers around too.