It was such a lovely morning today that we went back to yesterday's Durie Tower and yes I too climbed the 179 steps. Turns out that it was built in 1925 and is dedicated to the 513 "young people from Wanganui" who died in WW1.
Then, remembering our promise to ourselves to revisit Te Papa, we scooted back to Wellington.
As well as the parliament ("Beehive" unsurprisingly) which we'll try to tour tomorrow morning (see beside it the statue of Richard Seddon, born a Lancastrian, who is generally considered a good egg, having introduced old age pension legislation and overseen a bill permitting women's suffrage in 1893, well before anyone else thought of such a curious notion (though an account of his personal views on the topic depends on what you read!),
the "old" St Paul's cathedral, dating from 1866 (and the replacement, though only on a drive-by)
and up to Mount Victoria for a cracking view of the city in the sunshine
and you can just make out a BlueBridge ferry coming into harbour, maybe the one which will take us to Picton tomorrow at 1.30
And finally back to Te Papa for a squint at the squid; colossal : apparently its remaining eyeball (one fell out) is the size of a football... And, with apologies to Te Papa and a caveat that we haven't looked at it, I feel it my duty to share the "build your own squid" link : http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid
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