church, chums, shakespear’s park and a flippa ball victory

another fun pack sunny day in auckland …

esther’s friend sunny came to church with us again this morning which was great

and after church we went to a cafe with debbie and warren which was jolly good

then we made a picnic and drove out to shakespear’s park

shakespear’s park is at the end of a peninsular and we were on the south side so we could look back at Auckland

here’s a map of where it is

we had a family game of frisby then pack up the picnic

then we went for a walk to the lookout

it was a bit of a strain to get up the hill

but the views were great in all directions

this is looking toward tiritiri matangi where we went to at the beginning of the year.

and of course more views back to auckland

i think you could probably make out my office in these pictures if i told you where to look. but seeing as i’ve only got a week left there before we relocate i won’t

here’s a boat going along the top of a hill

and here’s tiritiri matangi with the Coromandel in the background

and here’s rangitoto, our most famous dormant volcano

you get the idea …

we did a couple of geocaches – but only found one

there was some amazing bird song down by the beach which we assumed must have been particularly musical tuis. but it was actually a couple of bellbirds. they were both singing the same song in time with each other in adjacent trees. it was quite magical. bellbirds are quite rare on the mainland so these must have flown over from tiritiri matangi