We've become addicted to the outdoors since we've been here in New Zealand! As the time is quickly approaching for us to return home, we're realizing how much we're going to miss wandering around all the beautiful places here. We spend as much free time outside as our work and the weather will allow. This past weekend we went back to a regional park, Shakespear, that we first saw early on. It starts out with a little walk through the bush, and then up through some pasture land to where at the top, this is the view below.
The cool thing about these regional parks is that they're dual purpose. Many of them are actually working farmland that's also been set aside as a park. You can wander through the pastures, or as they say, paddocks, and the only request they make is that you don't bother the animals and close the gates. There are about twenty five of these kinds of parks within an hour or so drive of our apartment.
The Happy Wanderer!
Norfolk pines on the skyline. They're a very common site here, and pretty against the sky.
This is a cruise ship sailing out to sea from Auckland.
This is us up on the lookout...
...and this is our sheep friends, with the lookout in the background.
One even posed for us!
As evening begins, another Norfolk pine silhouetted against the sky. If you look really hard just to the left of the trunk, you can see the skyline of Auckland across the water. It's never far away, but yet another world from these peaceful pastures and hills.
The cool thing about these regional parks is that they're dual purpose. Many of them are actually working farmland that's also been set aside as a park. You can wander through the pastures, or as they say, paddocks, and the only request they make is that you don't bother the animals and close the gates. There are about twenty five of these kinds of parks within an hour or so drive of our apartment.
The Happy Wanderer!
Norfolk pines on the skyline. They're a very common site here, and pretty against the sky.
This is a cruise ship sailing out to sea from Auckland.
This is us up on the lookout...
...and this is our sheep friends, with the lookout in the background.
1 comment:
Hello,
My family and I recently moved from Katy, TX to Auckland. We are also members of the church and just rented a small home in Stanley Bay where we will be moving on Monday. I am pretty sure we are going to be in the Takapuna Ward. I wanted to make sure the ward was still meeting at 9:00am (like it says on the church website) and did a google search for Takapuna Ward and came across your blog.
I have spent a little time time reading some of your posts and I am looking forward to reading more. We have so much to learn but we are thrilled to be here.
We look forward to meeting you.
Alisa
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