Auckland Day 2

The rains came down in torrents. What should we do today? We headed south in our trusty steed and promptly got lost in the suburbs. The IPad was our GPS but without WiFi or 3G we could not download enough maps. We walked to a Maccas to use their WiFi - it was not working was it! So we drove to another and finally (very slowly) managed to download enough maps for the day.

Bethell Beach

We headed for the west coast, the mountains and the black sand beaches. Bethells beach was starkly beautiful and so was the slow, windy road to get there. Yes the sand was very black and because of the rain it stuck tenaciously to our shoes.









We headed back home via a different route that took in some beautiful rainforest, mountains and we were told fabulous scenery if only we could have seen it through the clouds - the Waitakere Ranges Regional Parklands.