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A Day At The Mount
Tauranga, New Zealand Tuesday February 21st 2013
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Tauranga, New Zealand
Well here we are in Tauranga – the Mount to be more accurate.
Last night as we sailed out of Auckland, we had dinner in the Britannia Restaurant. We’d booked a table of 6 but instead we are at a table of 4. The other couple is from England and are very nice. Dinner was quite yummy; the wine however is really very expensive!! After dinner we went off to the welcome concert which was pretty good with the resident singers and dancers.
This morning we woke up in Tauranga. We spent the morning exploring the ship – first stop to purchase a coffee card at the cafe. Very good coffee after the rather insipid brew in the dining room at breakfast. Also checked out internet access – blogs will not go up every day because the charges are huge.
There are 1933 passengers on board, over half of them from USA. There are about 500 Brits, and Kiwis, Aussies, Europeans and Asians make up the rest of the population. At breakfast this morning we sat with a couple from Snells Beach!
This afternoon we headed into the Mount, had a coffee and looked around the shops. There was a school group having a water safety day in the water and they were having a wonderful time.
Before dinner we set sail heading towards Napier. It was the first time this ship had come into Tauranga so our send off by the locals was quite touching. The wharf was crowded as was the beach. There were small boats with families aboard bobbing about beside us. It was all very cool. Gray was more interested in watching the pilot jumping back into the pilot boat.
The evening concert with Ben Makisi was wonderful!!!
