I love hiking. We used to go all the time growing up, whether it was at christmas time or to the blue mountains, we did a lot of bushwalking. I have fond memories of those times.
My sister in law Karleen has adopted the idea of family activities to be centered around becoming fitter, and exercising. I of course LOVE that idea and quickly stole the idea.. Luckily for me Karleen is the sharing type. She talked of the hike her family did together and we thought it would be great to be able to do some of these hikes together too.
When they brought Nauvoo home, our two families headed off to discover a hiking track in West Auckland. It was a great idea to go together, as the cousins again enjoyed their time together.
The hike was supposed to take 3 hours one way. The first part was about 1/2 hour track to a waterfall. Since we had a late start to the morning, we stopped here and had lunch. It is the middle of summer here so there was not a huge amount of water, just enough to have a good waterfall and watch the eels in the rock pools.
After this, we headed back the same path that met up with the second part of the hike. Arama and Ashley took the younger 2 boys in the car to meet us at the other end, and Karleen and I took off with the excited rest of the kids. The track was supposed to take us 2 hours, we were done in about an hour.
We actually had time to sit and wait for the cars to arrive to pick us up!! Traffic......yearrrh....
The hike was close to Muriwai Beach, which we checked out. It was very windy and extremely choppy. I saw my first blue bottle in YEARS, I have actually not seen a blue bottle here in NZ before.. there is always a first I suppose.
It was a really awesome day, and we will do it again soon. My body felt great on Saturday - but walking around on Sunday? hmmmm that was another story!
My sister in law Karleen has adopted the idea of family activities to be centered around becoming fitter, and exercising. I of course LOVE that idea and quickly stole the idea.. Luckily for me Karleen is the sharing type. She talked of the hike her family did together and we thought it would be great to be able to do some of these hikes together too.
When they brought Nauvoo home, our two families headed off to discover a hiking track in West Auckland. It was a great idea to go together, as the cousins again enjoyed their time together.
The hike was supposed to take 3 hours one way. The first part was about 1/2 hour track to a waterfall. Since we had a late start to the morning, we stopped here and had lunch. It is the middle of summer here so there was not a huge amount of water, just enough to have a good waterfall and watch the eels in the rock pools.
After this, we headed back the same path that met up with the second part of the hike. Arama and Ashley took the younger 2 boys in the car to meet us at the other end, and Karleen and I took off with the excited rest of the kids. The track was supposed to take us 2 hours, we were done in about an hour.
We actually had time to sit and wait for the cars to arrive to pick us up!! Traffic......yearrrh....
The hike was close to Muriwai Beach, which we checked out. It was very windy and extremely choppy. I saw my first blue bottle in YEARS, I have actually not seen a blue bottle here in NZ before.. there is always a first I suppose.
It was a really awesome day, and we will do it again soon. My body felt great on Saturday - but walking around on Sunday? hmmmm that was another story!
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