Penguin Watch
5th December 2009 This morning we visited the Anderson Park Art Gallery which was just a ten minute drive from our campsite. This is a wonderful art gallery housed in a grand, 1925 Georgian-style manor which itself is set in some delightful landscaped gardens. We started by exploring the grounds, including the 70 year old Monkey Puzzle tree, the bridge over the duck pond and the miniature rose garden. After a walk through native woodland which although it looks like it’s been there forever, was actually planted, we came to the back of the house and a wharepuni (Maori sleeping house) where one of the owner’s daughters was married in the 1930s. ...