On a warm and sunny Auckland Sunday and with Mum up for the weekend, we decided to walk off the delicious dinner from the night before with a walk around Te Atatu Peninsula. If like me, you main memories of Te Atatu was their league team thrashing it out against Wainuiomata in the old national competition, you probably thinking of it as a strange destination for a Sunday walk. And it's true, some parts of Te Atatu do closely resemble the West Auckland of Outrageous Fortune. But the eastern side of peninsula also affords some stunning views back over the city, as well as walking through mangroves and wetlands with plenty of cabbage trees, pukekoes and fantails.
To complete the loop walk of the peninsula (a quite tiring 11kms), we also got a good look at some of Te Atatu's 'urban scenery', with some spectacular over-grown lawns and cars in the back yard with no wheels and on blocks. Though there was one feature that caught my eye...
2 comments:
When the best you can say of somewhere is that it has good views of somewhere else, you're implicitly saying its a shithole Posso...and it is. Ya should've gone to Cascade Kauri!
Yep, it's West Auckland to a tee. But I'm a view-lover, not a tree-hugger.
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