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both these stops, museums, were both located at different ends of wellington's harbour front. a very lovely setting for a museum i must say. so to have two of them here was a real treat.
i of course had to walk said water front, and here is the most complete photographic record of it on the innerweb! i went a little picture crazy cause it was so nice, and frankly i needed to work off some of my magical angst!
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for a moment i thought that the baskets were doing something weird again, and making these up out of thin air. after a few seconds i realized i wasn't feeling the magic tingle i usually do...
these koru were supposed to be here, and were just neat statues in place.
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i wandered into a really cool public square. on one side was the wellington central library and on the other the wellington public gallery. as much as i would have liked to check these both out, i was on a mission, and time was of the essence!
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for some reason someone had stacked a bunch of rocks into cool stone towers. neat, but i'm not sure who has the time for such an interesting hobby?
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as i rounded the bend i just about passed out... i saw not the first or second, but rather third UFO type thing in wellington!
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only unlike the last two this sphere was actually flying!!!
just like the descriptions in all the scary unsolved mystery books i used to read as a hatchling (and not sleep afterwards much to craig's annoyance...) this one was floating and not making a sound...
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unlike all the other false alarms of the paranormal type i'd had lately this one didn't give any signs of being a false alarm... meaning it was simply an alarm!!!
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than as i moved suddenly the false came back into the alarm situation... it was just another statue (which by now i'm sure you've noticed wellington has no shortage of). it was a sphere made of metal ferns held up by a bunch of metal wires... which aren't the easiest to see. especially in the bright sun!
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okay so with yet another UFOesque statue in town i proceeded onwards towards the museums.
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outside the gallery as a big picture i couldn't help but notice. not only was it a pretty blue, and full of birds, but there was also a pterosaur on it. first dinosaur type thing i'd seen in new zealand since christchurch.
just up from the UFO square was the next section of the water front. (see like i said people of the innerweb looking at this post there's no way you'd get lost when you visit this spot in wellington ;p )
the first neat thing they had as a tall metal fern tree.
like i said really tall.
than you get to the section that connects to the harbour footpath, but there's a lot crammed into this 50 metre stretch... so don't expect the footpath just yet...
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there's a neat sailing ship like window looking out onto traffic.
marking the end is a slightly menacing wooden barracuda.
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looking back you not only see parts of the wood playground, but also the tall towers of wellington...
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which give way to the waterfront of wellington.
at the end of this section you can see a very cool fountain. being the fountain fan i am i couldn't resist checking it out!
this is one of the more artsy and creative fountains i've seen ever!
sadly it wasn't running, but i could just imagine it doing so... would have been a highlight of my wellington experience!
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my next stop the first of the two big museums in wellington...
to be continued...
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You are really making me want to visit New Zealand with these photos!
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