Today was one of those beautiful clear days here in Auckland with the sun shining and people out and about on the Viaduct, a part of Auckland's swank waterfront. I picked Maya up from her third day of school and we both biked back home to the boat. Note: Maya is going to school which you'll hear more about in future blogs and I don't know how to drive on the wrong side of the road, so we get around on our bikes.
But back to the story, we were pleasantly surprised to see a big little duckling in the water ...
And look who was also examining the duckling!
That's one of the old America's Cup boats.
We had another good sighting, something pretty cool ... the New America's Cup 45 catamaran. We couldn't get very close, but from a distance the mainsail looks like it came off straight off an airplane. Apparently, we're going to be seeing more of them in Auckland. The AC 45s are the scaled down version of the America's Cup 72s that will be racing in San Francisco in 2013. How exciting!
In the meantime ... what was the big little duckling doing on the water? I understand it's been in many other cities around the world.
And what is Kai doing?
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Kai is having a blast!
That is one big *SS duck!
OK... love the duckling! part of a promo or ??
I want that duck.
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