A new day.
A new adventure.
A walk to the station, (So Easy to buy a ticket , So quick, So cheap – Melbourne take note !!!!) and a ride to Britomark at the harbour
Hot coffee at Botswana Butchery (nothing to do with the country – go figure) and a glorious ferry ride to Rangitoto island saw us start
This island erupted from the sea about 600 years ago – a New volcano 😯
An iconic landmark in Auckland’s skyline- symmetrical cone of 260m looking over the Hauraki Gulf.
The black lava dominates and yet vegetation is taking root and the island is a mass of green, black and more green, steep slopes and amazing views in all directions.
There is a single ‘road’ built by prisoners. Interestingly there were not POW but regular prisoners in the 1920’s who,for the last 6 months of their sentence were taken to the island to work.
The whole island is a conservation area now and very tightly controlled with the reintroduction of indigenous bird life eradication of rats and the cleaning of boots and sealing bags mandatory.
The Tui serenaded us almost all the time as we walked the boardwalk to the top of crater
An amazing day finished off with a return ferry ride, G&T to share notes and thoughts and impressions in the sun at the harbour; a delicious meal , gentle train ride and good walk up the hill to home from home
And when I work out how to post the video of the Tui, I will 😉
Brave New World of Blogging 