So before Kare Kare (so really it should be first) we took Grace over to Devonport and up North Head to see the tunnels and the guns and the view back across the city where we'd been that morning. Despite the morning fog that lasted till midday, that's how you can tell it's winter, the sun came out to play a cracker of day for us all. Pete and i were chuffed as we want Grace to go back to London and tell our friends how warm and lushious enzed is and not all rain and thunder clouds, but it is winter afterall, miracles don't happen everyday! well, except this one, and the next :) I love new zealand.
Those smiles say, I just had eggs for breakfast, laughed at a bowl of latte, the suns come out, there's Mt Rangitoto, we're standing on a hill, we can see the sea, it's a good day. 
What a view eh? On the other side of North Head you look out over Auckalofa, our silver city.
That's Devonport to the right below, with the ferry that takes you right into the viaduct.
you can see the NZ weather mustering up a typical sudden change with the rain cloud on the left of the flag pole and the clear blue skies on the right. The gun/ cannon thing is inactive incase you were concerned. North Head was used as a barrack to protect Aucklands harbour during the second world war. There are tunnels that run in and out of the hill, most of them still open to the public and excellent for touring at night with a torch and some wine.
Inside a tunnel below, Grace called this my own 'come towards the light' moment, but really the view framed by the hole was pretty amazing.
Pete and Grace in the tunnels, pretty amazing the layers of rock.
I forgot how cool it was to have North Head as a kid growing up. Grace pointed out that if it was England everything would be fenced off and boarded up for safety reasons, which is true. We may have lost the Cats Trail at Beachhaven Primary School but we've still got North Head.
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