Uneasy Pills – Rantings of a lost ID.iot

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Part Two.

 

My Hotel room in Napier had a Hot Tub.. Yeah 🙂 … I didn’t use it though.. DOH!

 

Napier is known for its Art Deco design, after the big earth quake that near flattened the place, they re-built it in like.

And a cool looking sculpture thing….

 

Next Stop – Cape Kidnappers

Cape Kidnappers is a Gannet Colony Reserve, I was going to drive out to it, but the tide was high, and it wasn’t worth the risk.. so here’s a photo of the information board instead.

So continuing along.. it rained…

 

Next stop – WAIPUKARAU (I’ve changed to a slightly more detailed map for this area)

 

Not allot to look at here, other then quite a cool looking Masonic Temple..

 

 

On to – DANNEVIRKE

On the way, I see mountains with snow caps 🙂 YAY SNOW 🙂

 

  Then, we got into town….

 

Vikings ?????

Yes, Apparently, in 1880, the fist boat load of Swedish peoples landed… Dannevirke is a Norse town.

Not much to see, so on to the next town….

 

Next stop: MANGATAINOKA – Home of TUI Beer 🙂

 

The opening and Closing hours had me a little confused…

The “Actual” Tui Brewery Building (behind protective fence)

Follow This Link for funny TUI Beer Add on YouTube

And… TUIWOOD … Yeah, take that Hollywood!! 🙂 Hahahahaha errr….

 

 

Next Stop: EKETAHUNA

This was the only interesting thing I could find in Eketahuna

Next Stop: Mt Bruce National Park

  

This is the visitors centre at the wildlife centre.. Nice Building..

This is where they save and bread New Zealand’s native bird, the Kiwi.

This is the only Kiwi image I can give you, as Kiwi’s are nocturnal, they are in a dark enclosure, and not allowed to use Flash on the Camera. They are cute though.

The fist gives you an idea of the size of a single egg from a Kiwi… damn! That’s big!

There is also an outdoors thing, not much going on.. but here you go.. looks nice and so I went for a walk 🙂

… And a Duck…..

.. and some bird thing in a tree that was REALLY LOUD 🙂

.. and some water..

 

.. and a track…

 

.. and the outside of the building ..

Next Stop: MASTERTON

A few interesting things….

 

Just outside of Masterton is Carterton

And a wicked looking fountain thing…

 

 

And then… TOTALLY out of the blue…Read the Sign…. I kid you not! It’s for real!

Follow this link for: Stonehenge New Zealand

   

 

Next Stop: FEATHERSTON

Just a war memorial…

  

 

.. and I thought this church sign was quite funny 🙂

 

 

Finally.. WELLINGTON… YAY…. Bottom of the North Island of New Zealand.

Here, I will stay the night…

 

saw this old building.. it looked interesting (x2)

Can you see how dirty the water looks ?? Ewww

 

As Wellington is the Capital City of New Zealand (not Auckland) this, sadly is the Government House Building, called “The Beehive” cause it looks like a beehive…

        

Ok enough of politics…

Then I saw a awesome looking church building, just as the sun was starting to set, so there is a light hint of sunset pink on the building also..

 

 

I liked the lines and design on this building, the National Library of New Zealand…

I managed to catch the Moon above the corner of the building… YAY  

 

This, just looked interesting… a splattering of red…

 

I wonder why they want to refurbish the Royal Thai Embassy building…???

 

As I was driving around looking for a place to have dinner, I saw this wicked looking building… so here are a few shots of it…

 

A zoomed in shot…

 

Thi
s is where I had dinner….

BTW… Dinner was Fantastic!! 🙂

 

Then.. Driving back, this area is called Oriental Bay, Wellingtons nicely developed water front…

 

And… that’s all for the day err night….

Bed time.

See you tomorrow 🙂