Coast to Coast Walkway

On the last studio day in Auckland, my friend Talia and I woke up at five in the morning, and ventured out to walk across New Zealand (okay, the skinniest part, but still) by walking from one coast to the other of Auckland.  We kinda followed a map, kinda followed the yellow signs, but mostly just got lost, found hidden fruit stands, secondhand bookstores, playgrounds, and AMAZING, wonderful views.

Sunrise from Mt. Eden, a volcano in Auckland.  We thought we had missed the sunrise, we got to the top of this volcano, and we had the most beautiful sunrise ever. There was a man next to us filming the sunrise.  When the sun had risen, he sang happy birthday into the camera - how great would that be for a birthday gift!

Views from the top of Mt. Eden

Melville Park - a cricket field.

Cornwall park - huge and so many cool trees!

One tree hill - a commemoration to the Maori people (I still have to look this up, because the guy who commemorated it seemed a litttttleee strange...)

The best part!!! The playground.  Talia is on the flying fox - which is a zipline, and you swing into tires at the end and fling back and it's so much fun!!!

We ended up walking 19 km for about 7 hours! It was a great way to get a way from the studio and to spend our second to last day in Auckland!