The 3.5 hour ferry crossing from Picton to Wellington through the Marlborough straits separating the islands has an evil reputation but we were lucky to have a calm and uneventful crossing.
It felt almost strange to be in a city of high rise buildings again. We did a walking tour around the Parliament buildings, old St Paul Cathedral, the High Court and Law College.
and of course the Te Papa museum, which would really have merited more time than we had on our last day. For us perhaps most memorable was actually a tremendous exhibition about Gallipoli made even more poignant by some supersize but tremendously lifelike figures created by the Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings) team.
Our favourite relaxing activity was taking the cable car to Kelburn Hill overlooking the city and wandering back through the Botanical Gardens, with their colour, bird life and scented Rose Garden with a cafe in the middle.
It felt almost strange to be in a city of high rise buildings again. We did a walking tour around the Parliament buildings, old St Paul Cathedral, the High Court and Law College.
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| Blue sky morning in Wellington |
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| Beehive and Parliament House |
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| Kate Shepherd (woman's suffrage) themed pedestrian lights |
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| Inside the timber Old St Paul's |
and of course the Te Papa museum, which would really have merited more time than we had on our last day. For us perhaps most memorable was actually a tremendous exhibition about Gallipoli made even more poignant by some supersize but tremendously lifelike figures created by the Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings) team.
Our favourite relaxing activity was taking the cable car to Kelburn Hill overlooking the city and wandering back through the Botanical Gardens, with their colour, bird life and scented Rose Garden with a cafe in the middle.
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| We spent at least 10 minutes listening to and watching this tui! |
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| Spot the lesser known Nic among the fabulous hydrangeas and azaleas |
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