kelly tarlton's

I spent three hours in Auckland’s sewer system today. Ok, so it’s been repurposed – the former municipal waste management facility is now home to Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Experience and Underwater Encounter.

Highlights of the day included a Snowcat ride through the penguin breeding facility, watching the 6’-wide stingrays being fed, walking through life-size reconstructed Antartic explorers’ huts (with mostly authentic items rather than reproductions) and salivating over a tank full of gigantic crayfish (rock lobster). Sunglasses shown for scale.

After Kelly Tarlton’s, we drove down to Rotorua for the day. I’m feeling worse than yesterday, so I wasn’t up for the dusk fly-fishing that the campground manager recommended (he and his buddy landed 4 trout between them in under an hour last night. supposedly) and I crashed soon after dinner.