running 1:02:55 [3]
shoes: Asics Trabuco
We were all wide awake at 6am which is just ridiculous, as that's 3.30 Adelaide time. Anyway, started out across to the Domain with John & Andrew, then I left them to their own devices and I went up Mt Eden, which I had seen from the air when flying in. Did a lap of the perfectly (inverted) conical crater, admired the view to all the other craters across Auckland, and headed back down which my knees didn't like much. Now that I have seen the Tui birds squabbling in the pohutukawa trees, I know that I am in NZ.
Filled in the morning very nicely by catching a ferry from downtown across to Devonport, which huundreds of other people were doing on this public holiday (Day After New Year - seriously?) and consuming the best seafood chowder I have ever come across, before going to the airport to pick up the rest of the Arrows, and heading south.