The great photo-editing bonanza continues. This time a couple of outings over Christmas. Firstly to Onepoto Reserve, a park we’ve mentioned before that has an excellent cycle track all laid out like a mini road system. the second location is North Head down at Devonport. A lovely place for a family walk, hills, tunnels, views, guns and history.
Posts Tagged ‘North Head’
Christmas Outings
Posted in Days Out, tagged Auckland, Christmas, Cycling, Devonport, North Head, Onepoto, tunnel on February 26, 2012| 1 Comment »
North Head on a Spring Day
Posted in Days Out, tagged Devonport, North Head, Photos, tunnel on October 28, 2011| 1 Comment »
Time for some photos! Where the North Shore ends there is a natural hill called North Head. During the war it was a gun emplacement and the historic tunnels and some of the guns are still there. It’s all open to the public and a great place to go on a sunny spring day. On this particular spring day Josie and her running buddy had run from Torbay all the way down to North Head. They’d stretched it out to a 21km run to prepare for the Auckland half-marathon some weeks later.
We timed the arrival of the rest of the family and some other friends to the end of their run and all had a picnic up on the side of the hill, looking out over Cheltenham beach.
The kids had such a fun time, firstly rolling and sliding down the steep grass banks and then investigating tunnels and caves, spotting submarines and firing imaginary guns at boats that weren’t there to win a war I hope they’ll never have to understand the reality of.
