We have one of our grandsons staying with us at the moment and so we headed over to the city on the ferry so we could walk around the waterfront area.
The final preparations for the Americas Cup Challenger series yacht racing are happening at the moment and there are a couple of dinghies in town belonging to people involved and I wanted to see some of them.
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The first notable yacht that we saw turned out to be the NZ Cup holders defence boat that was heading out for some practice. I was interested but the grandson wasn't
![Frowning face :frowning2: ☹️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2639.png)
and so we walked on.
He soon spotted a paddling area and asked "could he please take his sandals off and cool down?", He said "I won't get my clothes wet, granddad".
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Well, that was before he spotted the fish
![Fish :fish: 🐟](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f41f.png)
, then he wanted to go after them so I said that he could take his shorts off (he is not my kid
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
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Eventually he lost interest and we walked on until he spotted the playground that I was walking towards and then he was off at a run (hopefully his mother won't see these photos), here he is disappearing into the distance
I eventually caught up with him at the playground
After another hour on the play equipment we climbed up a viewing tower for the views, it is slightly industrial on this part of the waterfront but there are some sights in the background.
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The American Challenger's base. Then I saw what I had come to see, just around the corner.
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one of the dinghies! Then, of course, he needed to climb on one of the Americas Cup advertising structures.
Then we headed uptown for a quick look at the city Christmas tree
Walked back down to the waterfront and caught the ferry back across the harbour. Looking back to the ferry terminal and downtown
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