Exploring Auckland

I love it when a city "puts their lipstick on" for my visit. It really just means that the weather was lovely during my visit, but I like the visual. 

Auckland Harbour

We spent the morning meandering through town, spending most of our time looking at boats. :)

Pretty pleased to be taking in all the boats

Biggest recliner EVER!

Soaking in some sunshine!

Jackson's dream sailboat

I love the color of the water!

It was a truly gorgeous day so we just kept walking and soaking it all in. Auckland is a big city, but it isn't that big. It also felt really safe to me. There just didn't seem to be corners you turned and thought, "whoops, shouldn't be here!" The entire town is under construction, though. It is as if they said there can be no expansion anywhere else until they finish work in Auckland because we saw almost zero construction throughout the country until we got here. They are building new high-rises and putting in an extended subway system. I'm sure in 15 years (these people don't move quickly) these projects will be complete and it will be just a wonderful place to live!  

The ferry building

We decided to take a ferry out the Mt. Victoria in the early evening to climb up and get some good views of the city. We always love seeing a city from the water and this was no exception. What a gorgeous skyline!

The skyline from the Harbour

The skyline from our hike

This was actually a pretty easy hike so I'm sure a piece of Jackson was disappointed. ;) We even saw another schnauzer on the way up. SCORE!

sweeping views

Such a gorgeous place!

Petefish.

Evening light 

Sunset on the way back to town

We hung out on the little island for a couple hours before making our way back to the CBD (downtown) for some dinner. We opted to have Mexican, again, because we knew it was delicious. That was after Jackson stopped in at the club room for some free drinks which may explain why he didn't have his eyes open in the photo below. ;)

Mexican food (again!)