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You are perusing the pages of my Travel journal, and following our New Zealand travels of December 2011- January 2012.
It’s early January at this point and we are leaving Northland and heading south. Whilst I’m too amoured with the South Island and the Christchurch region to ever want to live in Auckland (for me there’s far too much motorway and way too busy) there are some aspects of the city that I love and get a buzz from every time I see again.
Auckland and Manuaku Cities sit back to back on two adjoining harbours, and a relatively tiny strip of connecting land is all that prevents New Zealand’s Northland from being an island.
Consequently the two harbours have many bays and sailing is a very assessable and popular pass-time so it’s little wonder Auckland has earned the nickname “the City of Sails”. Christchurch’s deep water harbour and port on the other hand is on the other side of the Port Hills in Lyttleton and whilst sailing is also popular there it’s not a patch on the marinas that are seemingly almost everywhere around Auckland’s shores.
Auckland’s Sky Tower is also a new addition to the Auckland skyline since I left New Zealand to live in The Netherlands. Wikipedia tells me:
“The Sky Tower is an observation and telecommunications tower located on the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets in the Auckland CBD, Auckland City, New Zealand. It is 328 metres (1,076 ft) tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast,[4] making it the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere.”
The sky tower is imposing as we round the bays and I never tire of the views as I come over the Harbour Bridge and back into the city…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
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(photograph © Kiwidutch)
