The National Aquarium is in Napier and we saw a Kiwi here. No photos though!
A seahorse.
Close up and personal with a big turtle.
Lots of Fairy Penguins here. They have all been rescued one way or another.
Gardens in Napier.
Taking a tour!
The Napier Port. Many cruise ships dock there now.
Our favourite visit was to the Mission Estate Winery, in the hills just outside of Napier. It was established in 1851 by pioneering French Missionaries, the Marist Brothers, and is considered to be the birthplace of New Zealand wine.
It is in a beautifully restored seminary building
The Mission wine barrels.
Like most of the North Island, it is very windy around this area and tall hedges like this are built to protect the crops.
Heading back towards Wellington, we stopped at Hastings for a while, where we met Chloe and her friends.
That that night we stayed at a peppers Resort at Martinborough, a little town in the Wairarapa wine country.
Beautiful grounds.
Even a hedgehog!
We set off early the next day to pick Jenny and David at the Wellington Airport. It was a lovely drive through the hills. This memorial commemorates the march that 60,000 of New Zealand's First World War troops made over the Rimutakas from Featherston Camp to Upper Hutt.
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