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amethyst73Monday March 8
Rangitoto is the youngest volcano in the Auckland area, having erupted only about 600 years ago. Today we climbed to its summit! (Don't worry, it's inactive now.) It's a hilly and rocky climb that takes about an hour. There's fields of rocky lava off to the sides of the path that look for all the world like an energetically rototilled lawn... except it's all boulders. There are lava caves near the summit, but we only went through the first of them as they were both exceptionally rocky and rather dark. The view at the top was quite something, but we took those photos with our other camera. We also saw some neat types of moss (see photos). We are both grateful for our hiking boots, and are very tired!
More Auckland observations:
- When the sun is out, it's very warm! We were lucky that today was mostly cloudy, which kept the temperature at "perfect" all day.
- There's a lot of gambling in Auckland. Big casino in Sky City, lots of poker and the like in bars and such.
- Downtown is nice and walkable. We can get anywhere we need to easily.
- It's pretty easy to get wireless Internet at cafes for an hour if you buy stuff. It's still kind of slow using the phone though - I'm typing this offline and will upload it when I get a chance tomorrow.
Leftovers tonight if we can figure out some way to reheat the massive amount of stuff from last night. Auckland Museum tomorrow!
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Rangitoto is the youngest volcano in the Auckland area, having erupted only about 600 years ago. Today we climbed to its summit! (Don't worry, it's inactive now.) It's a hilly and rocky climb that takes about an hour. There's fields of rocky lava off to the sides of the path that look for all the world like an energetically rototilled lawn... except it's all boulders. There are lava caves near the summit, but we only went through the first of them as they were both exceptionally rocky and rather dark. The view at the top was quite something, but we took those photos with our other camera. We also saw some neat types of moss (see photos). We are both grateful for our hiking boots, and are very tired!
More Auckland observations:
- When the sun is out, it's very warm! We were lucky that today was mostly cloudy, which kept the temperature at "perfect" all day.
- There's a lot of gambling in Auckland. Big casino in Sky City, lots of poker and the like in bars and such.
- Downtown is nice and walkable. We can get anywhere we need to easily.
- It's pretty easy to get wireless Internet at cafes for an hour if you buy stuff. It's still kind of slow using the phone though - I'm typing this offline and will upload it when I get a chance tomorrow.
Leftovers tonight if we can figure out some way to reheat the massive amount of stuff from last night. Auckland Museum tomorrow!
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