Tour of Auckland

     During Orientation we went on a tour of Auckland. We started at the airport and went to Mt. Eden. Then we went to Mission Bay for dinner and drove to Davenport for another look off a dormant volcano. This is a map (sort of) of where we went. We started at the airport (A). Then we went up Mt. Eden (B). It is a dormant volcano near the city center. It has lots of running and biking trails and lovely views!
     After Mt. Eden we went to dinner at a place in Mission Bay (C). Mission Bay is a trendy area with lots of small shops and restaurants. Dinner was marvelous. I had a salmon risotto. It was delicious. Lastly we went to the youngest and tales dormant volcano within the city of Auckland(D). It was located in Davenoport. It is only about 800 years old. There is an old post from WWI or II; I can't remember there. It has a gun turret that they could sink down into the top of the mountain. It was quite cool. One of my favorite things was that there were bunkers under the ground and the venting system had been decorated to look like mushrooms.

Some fun facts and pictures about Auckland

There are 55 dormant volcanos in Auckland 

Rangitoro is a dormant volcano that is an island. You can see it from my window. They have found stones that they believe came from Rangitoro as far away as China. 

Rangitoro

This is one tree hill. It is an extinct volcano.
It used to have one tree on the top of the hill
 but it fell down. Some Aucklanders call it
 none tree hill. 

The Sky Tower seen in both these pictures is
Auckland's biggest tourist attraction.
You can budgie jump off it. 

View from Devonport.

The mushrooms on the top of the
Volcano in Devonport. They were used
when the under ground gun was in
use. These cover the vents for the barracks.

Auckland is often called the city of sails. This is the largest
marina in New Zealand and Australia.

They have beautiful sunsets here.