Walked along the coast East of the city from Mission Bay, through Kohimarama & St Heliers Bays to Ladies Bay, returning to Mission Bay to eat fish & chips whilst dangling our feet over the sea wall.
The day concluded with a labyrinth walk in the grounds of Auckland Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and a wonderful candle lit concert inside the cathedral by the Australian a cappella quartet ‘the idea of north’.
We heard fireworks on our way home.
Just finished a book by the explorer and traveller Robyn Davidson. Looking back over thirty years since she walked half across Australia with her dog and 3 camels she writes of that adventure
‘The past caves away and dissolves behind us, leaving a few clues with which we try to reconstruct it. Hopeless task. History lives in the present’.
Tracks: One woman’s journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback. 2013, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Took a walk up to the crater of this volcanic island with its landscape of rugged lava, Pohutakawa forest, flowers and ferns and the amazing sound of the Tui bird.
…sort of!
Arrived amidst fervent celebrations.
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