Went to Butterfly Creek in the morning. A bit smaller than I expected, but interesting anyway. First a room with a few aquariums with some salt-water fish. Then the butterfly room (see pictures here). Then the crocodiles, which were still fairly new. The keepers went in to "exercise" them while we were there, which involved playing with the crocs with a long brush, and a rope with rags on the end. Then they got out the baby alligators and let people pet them.
Butterfly creek only took us until around lunch time, so we stopped in a cafe on the way home and had sandwiches for lunch, then walked to the Auckland Domain (a large park in central Auckland). From there we headed to Parnell street to find a dinner place. Ended up at a very empty Indian joint, where we ordered two "hot" dishes (mango chicken and beef vindaloo) and two "medium" (lamb and ginger beef). I would have called them "almost painfully hot" and "hot" but we finished it all. Actually very very good.
After dinner we headed over to the Sky Tower, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. Nice viewing of the city lights. We didn't do the "sky walk" or the bungee jump though.
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