We left Waikeke Island Monday morning after driving around the island in a RH drive car and eating food. Our activities were somewhat subdued by The Ebola. Thursday after our big Italian dinner Mary came down with The Ebola fever shivers and sore throat. That left Friday in Auckland mostly sitting in the hotel fighting a courageous battle against this disease. By Saturday morning we got on the ferry for the island and the 2 days of slow paced wandering around helped win the battle. This is where I would post some award winning photos of this time but I didn’t bring the cable to get the pictures off my camera. So here is one from the phone of one of the many bays.
So when we left Monday morning we had a ferry ride back to Auckland, a train and bus ride to the airport and ultimately an early afternoon flight to Christchurch. About the time we got on the train I started getting a sore throat and by the time we landed in Christchurch I was in full blown Ebolan fever and shivering. By next morning I was good enough to get out so we bought tickets for the center city trolley that gets you about everywhere there is to go in Christchurch. (population about 400000)
An action shot of one of the trolleys.
We spent the day getting on and off this thing. Mary bought some stuff we ate some food, it was still summer. So last night my case of The Ebola advanced to the head 100% plugged up stage that prevented using the breathing machine or for that matter breathing which of course impacted sleep. I didn’t get much. Today in spite of the Ebola issues we took in the Botanic Gardens and looked at the botany. We spent most of the day doing this and here are some of the botany we saw.
Here’s what our fiddle leaf fig could become if we worked on it and added about 20 feet to our ceiling.
Many many big trees her not only in the park but everywhere.
So finally today Mary just had to eat so she had some Jap crap at a place that is about a block from the hotel and also the first stop on the trolley route. I watched because we are still here and it’s summer.
We still have Thursday and half of Friday here and at this point we are more or less out of things to see or do since we can’t wind surf or mountain climb plus rain over night so we will see what happens before we head to Wellington which is an even smaller city, although we are to go eat some flowers out of some woman’s garden while she talks about artist guys. Hopefully it will still be summer.