Wherever next?

By aime

Yes, it's a boat hiding behind a tree

The exit from the PWC garage gives this view and sometimes it can be hard to believe what you can see. Just across the road is one of the berths used by the liners and some of them, like this one, are mahoosive. Catriona, perched on the the 24th floor of the PWC tower, surveys this realm whilst she tries to do her work. She sees the ferries that ply to Devonport and Waiheke island full of commuters and tourists, she sees the mega mega yachts of the visiting millionaires, billionaires and playboys, she sees the pride of the New Zealand Navy as it re-supplies and refurbishes and she sees the top heavy container ships that share the far end of the dockyard. It is a vibrant busy working dock area which backs on to the trendy Wynyard quarter, where trendy restaurants, cafés, shops offices and museums have filled the previously vacant sheds and port buildings. We took a trip to walk around a market there and to ogle the private yachts. Feeling a bit inadequate, we stopped in at one of the Marine Stores that sell dinghies and RIBS, but Catriona says that the package she gets to transport her belongings home at the end of her stay here wouldn't extend to a boat belonging to her father. Disappointing or what?

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