Thursday Feb 1 - A wild and windy day!

Today was one of our longest travel days, from Wellington up to Taupo, so it didn’t matter too much what the weather was, but a cyclone moved up the country and it has been pretty wild!  

We started out the day dry in super windy Wellington.  Here are some views out over the city from Mt. Victoria.  

We met some Californians yesterday who were crossing Cook Strait on the ferry today.  Glad it wasn’t us!

The trip up was relatively uneventful and not too photogenic.  We did find a windmill

A very low flying airplane (one of two at restaurants we saw)

And a sign that apparently South Africans will love!

Big news in the local paper!

And some weather shots from Auckland on TV tonight.

Should be a bit better tomorrow.