Weekend Walkway

This past weekend we went on a great hike to the west coast ranges called the Waitakeres. We've done a few hikes out here before, but not done this one before. It's called the Te Henga Walkway and is a 4 hour 12k hike one way. We wanted to do the whole track, but seeing as it was one way and the driving route between the points was about an hour, we didn't think it would really work! We started just south of Muriwai beach (see our post back in January about that beach) and went South towards Bethells Beach. We walked in for about 2 hours, then had a break and walked back to our car.

Not much to say about the hike besides the scenery is beautiful and the company was great!

Me and Kat along the walk 

Breaking waves--tempting to pull a Last of the Mohican's jump from here, but I guess Will would have been bummed...

Me and Will at the start of the hike (before I got sweaty)

The girls

The group (minus Sean who took the pic)

Cool spot along the coast. It was really narrow and kind of reminded me of the opening scene of Les Mis...I could picture them trying to pull a large ship into there :)

In New Zealand they practice Natural Selection. No fences to keep you from falling over the edge. If you are dumb enough to get close enough to fall, they don't want you in their country (or on their planet)

We stopped for lunch at some point along the way and got to take in this beautiful view while having our cheese, nuts and fruit. It was such a great rest period soaking in the positive ions from the ocean :)

We had to hike through several patches of thorny bushes, disguised as pretty flowers and I made it almost the whole way without incident, but stumbled at one point and got some mad thorns in my hand.

Hard to see, but I did have tons of sore splintery-type spots all over my hand. No one believes how mush it hurt, so I like to broadcast it :)

I highly recommend this walk to anyone interested!

xxTally