To break our trip to Singapore we decided to make a stopover to Auckland for 4 days. First we wanted to go to Waiheke Island, an island off the coast of Auckland. It is a half-hour ferry ride to Waiheke. It is very beautiful. It has a lot of beaches and mountains. But on Waiheke we wanted to go to to Oneroa, a little village wit...
Archive for: November, 2016
It was great. Dunedin had a lot of fun places like museums and pools. I met a lot of good people and will never forget them. I will miss Dunedin. ...
Our friends Jeff and Lisa suggested to do something fun: clamming! On a Sunday we came to Jeff and Lisa’s and we grabbed a few buckets and set off. We were going to a place called Warrington Surf. It is a place where you come and (I couldn’t believe it at first) you put your hand into the sand and you retrieve a LOT of c...
Once we went to Oamaru, a city in north Otago (Otago is a big part of the south island that includes the cities Alexandra, Queenstown, Dunedin, Arrowtown, and Oamaru, out of everywhere I’ve been). Oamaru is in the Guinness World Records for the most old-fashioned steam vehicles. They are Victorian style. We saw a truck, a rolle...
Once we went to Invercargill, the southernmost city in New Zealand. The city is best known for their successful colony of tuataras, a prehistoric lizard that survived only in New Zealand. It even has 3 eyes (I am completely not kidding)! When we came to the tuatarium we saw a 120-year-old tuatara named Henry. When he was younger he g...
Once we decided to go to the Moeraki toka (it means Moeraki Boulders in Maori). The Moeraki Boulders are unusually spherical boulders. According to wikipedia, the boulders consist of mud, fine silt and clay, cemented by calcite. How they are formed, it is not yet very clear to scientists. One of the theories is that the core gets...