Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Rangitoto Island

Saturday 24th February
Rangitoto Island is the islnad we can see from our house. We can't see the sea but we can see the volcanic island.
At 600 years old it is the youngest of Aucklands 49 volcanoes. To get there we had to catch a 30 minute ferry from downtown Auckland. there are only a few ferries a day so we had to plan our trip carefully. It took about an hour to walk up to the top, 15 mintues admiring the view and eating our picnic and then 55 minutes on the way down. This left about 10 mintues spare before the next ferry arrived to take us back to the mainland.


The views form the island are superb. We were able to orientate ourselves by looking at the Sky Tower and our local beaches.

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