Auckland Domain

In an effort to find things that cost little to no money, we went to the Auckland Museum this Sunday. It's a storyline of a lot of the Pacific communities and all of their wares. Then there is a lengthier history of the Maori items.

The one thing I found to be cool was that a lot of the items were not behind glass or out of reach. For obvious reasons we told the kids not to touch, but I have to admit that I did reach out and touch one of the earlier boats. Amazing.

From there we went to Wintergarden where they had a lot of the native plants and flowers. Kelsey is taking a photography class in school and wanted to do bright colors, so this worked very well for her. She took a lot of pictures to put together her first story board.

The grounds are massive and there are a lot of families having picnics, playing rugby or Frisbee. There are couples walking and lounging by fountains and statues.

Below are pictures.


The first picture has tattooing tools to the left. Kind of hard to see unless you open the picture.








The second picture is jade, really large and thick pieces.


The picture with the Maori is blurry...dang it! The pictures below are of different types of Maori buildings. The second one is like the meeting place that you saw in Whale Rider. The inside walls are covered in carvings. Sorry...we didn't get a picture of that.













The second picture is of a bannana tree.








The first statue is of Truth, Strength and Integrity.



There's a boy in that tree somewhere.