Days at sea, than New Zealand and then Hello Sydney

Hello again, these daily posts are sure fun lol

Yes back at sea and heading to Auckland, Bay of Islands and Sydney 

A couple sea videos for you

We arrived at Auckland and the day was mild 

Looking from our balcony 

Now we have been to Auckland heaps so just did a bit of walking around and Paul spoke to one of our friends but unable to catch up in person......

Tug boats came back to assist us leaving Auckland 

We arranged to have a meal in one of the restaurants and we had the back window views  

Sailing away and the pilot alongside 

Next morning we were at Bay of Islands and we stayed on boards as we were here in March so no need this time....and look at the big crack in the window lol

So a little tour of one of the decks....14

Statue....and this is the area we played Trivia most afternoons 

Tenders were busy taking some to and from 

Nice to have a day to relax with less people on board 

And another book I read 

So cute 

Then off again and this time Sydney 

The Harbour bridge 

Coming in to dock 

The Opera house and Prince Harry was going to be there later 

Beautiful Day and Luna Park is under the bridge to the right 

Selfie enjoying being off ship 

Our hotel for the next 2 nights 

We did plenty of walking looking at local markets 

And looked down to our ship which would be leaving later 

Our room 

A little kitchen 

View from Balcony 

See the Invictus games flag up there 

Our ship sounded the horn and started moving out 

Goodbye Celebrity Solstice 

Later the clouds really rolled in and weather changed.....

The sound of the thunder was interesting lol
Well now on to tomorrow......xoxoxoxoxo

Enjoying friends and a water park

Here is our NZ friends enjoying view from our balcony 😆😆

John and Leone....Paul has known them most of his life 😀😀 and now they are my friends too.....we had a lovely lunch together before showing them the apartment 😃😃

Another beautiful day it was on Tuesday

Yesterday Wednesday we met them at a local water park for a look....first time for us all

You can paddle in rafts or kayaks and there was a school group doing that ☺☺

This place is big and has a slower paced water course or a harder rapid type 

Looking back to where many kids were waiting

About to go on the travelator up

And over to the easier rapid spot

This neat water feature was at the entrance alongside the stairs 

We had a walk around to the rapid area of park and Leone is enjoying taking pics

John and Paul serveying the pretty empty rapid area 

Leone took a walk to see if they were having the rapids going and you can see the concrete and hard plastic shapes which form the water rapids

And very empty down the other way......Leone found out some young ones were certainly going to be rafting down here very shortly 😀😀

And in the distance we could see the water being pumped in from the lake area and hear it too

Staring to fill up

Lots of flowing and swirling

Almost full and flowing fast

And here comes a raft 

There were 2 rafts and lots of fun to see them paddling

And this spot was quite a drop so moved to take a pic as they came through again

Incredible and fun for us 😆😆

And here are some movies paul took.....

Hope you enjoyed more of Pauls films 😉😉😉😉 we fly tomorrow arvo so see you in a few days xoxo😆😆