A Day On Rangitoto Island

Rangitoto Island was born 600 years ago during a volcanic eruption, and it is the youngest volcano in. New Zealand.

Up early to get the early bird parking fee and the 7:30am early bird ferry. It was a beautiful morning, and a very nice 35 minutes ferry ride. Auckland skyline.

We started off walking the costal path along the west side of the island, 

and had to cross some lava fields.

Then we hiked to the top of the volcano, and had a great 360 degrees view of Auckland and sourroundings.

We then explored some lava caves,

had lunch in a cove,

and went for a swim.

We took the Costal Track back to the pier, but we only saw ocean the first and the last 15 minutes. The rest of the walk was on lava! Andy renamed it the Aouch and Ouch track as there was no give under our feet, and a lot of sharp lava stones.

We had done around 18km, and had to run for the ferry, but we had a wonderful day.