Birthday Stuff (Part II)

I don’t believe a birthday should be celebrated all in one day. I like to spread the love for a few days, maybe a week or so. If it were my birthday, I would celebrate ALL month long....at least when I lived in San Francisco I did.

The last birthday activity on the list was a picnic on Rangitoto Island which is an old inactive volcanic crater that's a 25 minute ferry ride from the city. We happen to love this island and haven’t been to it in about 6 years. While planning where to have our picnic, we decided to take a day hike over to Motutapu Island. This island is attached to Rangitoto by causeway (I had to look that word up)- it’s a road or railway elevated on a sandbank across a broad body of water or wetland. You can’t see this attached island from Auckland but can see it from other surrounding areas and by boat.

I’ve attached a picture from the net.

So we set off on our big adventure. An hour into our very boring and hot walk we came across this lone weed.

Thirty minutes later we could finally see a peek of Motutapu. Yay! What a contrast to the rocky volcanic island we were walking on.


I wish we could have stayed for longer and would really like to come back again one day BUT, we were so bored by the walk on Rangitoto that we will probably wait another 6 years to come back. We did find later that evening that a ferry does go to Motutapu in the Summer so, this is an option.... but, we've have to volunteer.

I can tick birthday celebrations off the list and move on to Christmas. UGH!