easter holiday day 10 – Ngatea Water Gardens

the last day of our holiday started off with the kids throwing themselves in the motel pool for an hour.

i was supervising by sitting on a sun lounger reading the sunday papers

then we loaded up the car and headed off to a beach which was on the way home.  as we arrived it started raining so we did a geocache instead

there were some very cool shells on the beach

amazingly you didn’t even need to hold them up to your ear to hear the sea

because the sea was just next to where they were

we then stopped somewhere else for lunch and finally arrived at Ngatea Water Gardens early afternoon.

it’s difficult to describe what this place is.  it’s definitely a nice garden with a big pond and a good wander.  but what makes it so fantastic is all the great signage and visual jokes all over the place

one thing this garden has which many others don’t is a can museum.  that’s right.  i can museum.  as in ‘beer can’.  over 10,000 of them. all in a room behind glass.  each of them different.   i loved it of course and there are a few more pictures in the slideshow below

i deliberately haven’t shown you all the pictures of all the jokes in the gardens as it’d spoil it for when you come to visit.  it is great !

once we’d seen everything we loaded back in to the car for the final hour and a half drive back to home, having had a really rather excellent holiday !