Surfers at Piha...Lee bumped into several of her ex-pupils coming out of the surf as we ate fish and chips on the beach.
Gannet colony (greedy, seagull-like creatures while dive into the sea at 80mph!) at Murawai.
Well, (West) Auckland was a brilliant and unexpected highlight. We hadn't expected to spend any time there on our way to Vorovoro, but Zee's ex-Haze mate Lee (!) and her lovely new husband (no, she did not have an old one ;)) Neil and her parents Brenda and Rob made us SO welcome...dropping everything to give us some wonderful tours and treating us to some amazing NZ food. The area is so close to the city (where one-third of the nearly 4m people in NZ live), but it's really rugged and green...like Scotland, but in technicolor and with a subtropical climate - and going surfing after school instead of deep-fried everything and Playstation - the people are so healthy and outdoorsy compared to in the UK! A lot of people in West Auckland are descendants of Scots and English, while the metropolitan area itself is host to the world's biggest Pacific Island community and a lot of Chinese and Koreans.
To anyone who slags off this part of the North Island...boooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
The way to KareKare, where part of The Piano was filmed and Crowded House recorded Together Alone.
NEXT STOP VOROVORO - see you all in 3 weeks?!! xo
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