Blogs from Orakei, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania

After being in Auckland for a few days we wanted to begin doing some more adventurous activities. I've always wanted to dive in with sharks but not inside a cage so when I saw the diving possibilities at Kelly Tarltons Aquarium it sounded amazing. We got to the aquarium and was put in our wet suits straight away and taken into the training pool to do our skills. Although we've done three dives already, we don't have our open water certificate so are still counted as beginners and had to go through our discover scuba again - we really should have just done the course!!! Once in the tank we had to jump over the viewing tunnel and across to the feeding zone. Once there we knelt on the bottom of the tank with 24 sharks ... read more

I woke up at 08:45 and got up at 09:00. I had a shower and got dressed, then had a banana for breakfast whilst watching a bit of television. At 10:30, we (Ranee, Billy and I) left to go to Kelly Tarltons. We had to drive through Auckland to get to Orakei and the centre. We queued up to get in and then went straight on the penguin experience as it was feeding time. We saw the penguins being fed and also saw the king penguin chicks being fed, they were so cute! We went through the shark tunnel and saw plenty of different types of fish, sharks, rays and eels. There was a travelator that you stand on and go round the route and that made Ranee and I quite dizzy! We got out of ... read more