New Zealand and Australia

On November 18, 2011, we flew to New Zealand for our biggest vacation ever.  We would spend two days in Auckland, New Zealand, cruise for 14 days around New Zealand and to Australia, then spend three more days in Sydney.

The overall itinerary looked like this:

New Zealand
  Auckland
  At Sea - Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Plenty
  Tauranga (and Rotorua)
  Napier
  Wellington
  At Sea - Captain Cook Ship Cove and Queen Charlotte Sound
  Picton
  Akaroa
  Port Chalmers and Dunedin
  At Sea - Fjordland National Park (Milford Sound)


Australia
  Burnie, Tasmania
  Melbourne
  Sydney

The bell of the ms Volendam, our floating carriage.