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 ‘tunnel’
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.
