Anyway, it is a gorgeous island. Here's a view of Auckland as we leave and various shots on the island. We pedaled 10 km across half the island and had lunch.
We walked the sand on this beach. It is full of broken shells from some sort of shellfish (mussell or ?), clams (look like butterneck) and sand dollars. The sand dollars looked somewhat like ours, the pattern was 5 lobed, but the lobes were a different shape.
The Waiheki Boat Society yards in one of the island's bays. The number of beached boats needing paint jobs seems indicative of a "hippy" type community
After we returned to Auckland, I rode around town checking out bike shops. I wanted to find a water
bottle with a bike shop's name on it, but no luck. However, check out this state of the art bike - no pedals but look at the suspension. There were lots of other interesting bikes in the collection.
Two more entries in the silly sign contest. The first one struck me as cute (and reminded me I need a haircut). The second baffles me a bit. Anybody who needs the warning this sign gives is probably not smart enough to read!
Last shot is Laura in our cute little hostel caravan, beavering away at the computer.
Hey, it's cheap and once you're asleep you can't see the curtains anyway.
Finally, the last word on the Sky Jump. Instead of jumping we compromised on having a great Italian
dinner and a wonderful gelato ice cream cone for dessert. We're in the "trendy" Parnell area of
Auckland. All sorts of restaurants, bars and 'boutiquey' stores up and down the street.
Tomorrow (Thursday) is our day to pedal out to a place nearer the airport. We fly out of here at 7 pm on Friday and we land in Vancouver 13 hours later, but before we leave here. Isn't the International Date Line fun?
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Two men standing 30 stories up on the roof of a building. Another joins them for the view when suddenly one of the first throws himself off the building, drops 20 stories and swoops up and back to the top again. "How in hell did you do that", says the 3d guy. "Easy, says the 1st. Just hold your arms out and updrafts will take you back up". He then does it again with the same safe results. "You try" he says, and the 3d man then jumps, drops 30 stories and splats. "You know", says the 2nd. man, "sometimes you can be a real shit, Superman. You missed your chance Superman. Ian
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