On Monday, March 18, Debbie drove Lisa, Helen and me to Auckland to visit the Kelly Tarleton/Auckland/SeaLife Aquarium and the Auckland Museum  

 

Both are relatively close to each other, so we decided to make a day of it.

 

Our first stop was the aquarium, which was an awesome experience from the get go.  You enter it from a walkway that goes through an Antarctic white-out of sorts that swirls all around you clockwise as you pass through it. It was hard to keep my balance and video record it at the same time, so I only captured  a few feet of it before I stopped filming, and I ultimately decided to delete the video because it was so short. I have been in that same kind of rotating tunnel before, but can’t remember where.

 

Here is a good overview of the aquarium, including the above-described walkway: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=rotating+tunnel+at+Auckland+Aquarium&type=E210US105G91596#id=1&vid=e314fd3503cecd01dad56dcd64387abf&action=click

 

Personally I could have stayed in the underwater (tunnel) for the entire time I was there, watching the sharks, sting rays, and other ocean life soar all around me.

 

I got a lot of great images:

Jonny the octopus

What a charmer!

 

Penguin egg

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the  gift shop on the way out I got a rockhopper penguin and a beluga whale for my critter corral:

 

AUCKLAND MUSEUM

 

The Auckland Museum is on three levels. There’s a Military/War Level, a Maori Culture Level, and a Natural History level. Here are some images I took that day.