The Big Yellow Bus is known as the Explorer Bus in Auckland and acts as the Hop-on Hop-off service. I boarded the bus at stop 2 the Sky Tower with a very efficient lady who seemed not only to be issuing the tickets but also controlling the positions and timings of the buses enroute. For example, once I had my ticket this lady announced that the next bus would be along shortly. Just at that moment the driver of this bus called her on the radio to say that he was at stop 9 (The last on the route) and preparing to drive-off to Stop 1. The classic response from the 'Lady Controller' was "Clarence could you Womble along please I have two passengers to join you at Stop 2 and a further two to buy tickets." We had plenty of time to join 'Uncle Bulgaria" (My naming) at Stop 2 to begin our journey.
Whilst waiting, I watched several courageous individuals taking a controlled fall from 192 metres up on the Auckland Sky Tower. So not a bungee jump but free falling between two fixed wires to a landing platform above the street. I will certainly not be taking that route out of the Restaurant later this evening.
The whole of Level 2 of the Museum is a memorial to New Zealand infantry, air force and navy who gave their lives in Japan, Greece, Gallipoli and many other theatres of war – see photo. This Museum like the Maritime Museum also covers the arrival of the Mauri's and how their culture and language developed. The final section was devoted to natural history and the photo shows some Kiwis.
I'll cover the visit to the Sea Life Centre in a further post otherwise the photos take up too much bandwidth and the post will not 'send'.
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