We were coming to the end of our time in Wellington, so we focused on spending time with Duncan and Sarah. We had pre-dinner drinks at one of their favourite brew pubs. It is the brewery with the large street art mural on the front of the building – Garage Project, Wild Workshop. I showed a picture of the street art on an earlier post. Today I’ll show the tasty beer.

Sunday we visited the Te Papa Museum, right on the waterfront in Wellington. There are many fascinating exhibits, including Moa skeletons, the giant NZ eagle (extinct now) and the only example in the world, of a preserved giant squid. They are very large!

On previous posts I’ve shown many pictures of NZ trees that grow with a thousand odd angles. Kind of like this one, but even more so.

I always wondered if this was just my imagination, or if there was an unusually high frequency of this in NZ. Turns out it wasn’t my imagination, and Te Papa offered one possible explanation.

On Sunday we visited another of Duncan and Sarah’s favourites before dinner, called Mean Doses. I’m sure there is a story behind that name… Then, after dinner, we had a final visit over wine and a Fuller’s Vintage Ale – 2018.

Monday morning we packed up the car and then tackled getting the car out of the very small garage onto the very small street, without denting anything. It was close.

On my way to pick up my morning latte I spotted another interesting piece of street art.

Then we headed north, up the west coast.