Had a good trip down from Paihia visiting a small local museum at Dargaville on the way and arrived in Auckland early evening. It was lovely to see Sarina, David and Harry who is an absolute delight. The evening was spent catching up on family and what we had all been doing.
The road where Sarina and David live leads onto the beach so the following day we decided to take it a bit easy and take a walk along the sea front, across the rocks and over the beach to a cafe Sarina recommended in Takapuna for coffee. It seems everyone else had the same idea and the cafe was full so after a while of sitting on the sea wall and watching the world go by on the sea we decided to go elsewhere for coffee. Good coffee but not such a nice outlook, we were facing the road. Collected lots of info from the Tourist Information and retired for lunch to peruse. There are 2 America's Cup boats in the harbour that you can go on and this is what Peter would like to do, you can either take part in the sailing or go on as a passenger (me).
After supper we were wisked off to Mount Victoria from which you can see 360 deg aspect of Devonport (yes there is a dockyard here), Auckland and the surrounding islands. It was magical and Harry had the time of his life sliding down the bank on a piece of cardboard, in fact the first time Sarina and I looked over the edge to see where he was he was so far down the bank that all we could see was his head. Oh what it is to be young and have no fear of heights, etc.
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