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Greetings Everyone - On Sunday we walk from Coast to Coast. This is a hike across Auckland from one coast to the other, from the Waitemata to the Manukau. It takes you through landscapes shaped by 600 years of Māori occupation, and through some of our finest natural and built heritage areas offering panoramic views along the way. The walkway is part of Te Araroa - The Long Pathway, a continuous 3000km walking track from Cape Reinga to Bluff.

Duration: Approx 5½ hours
Distance: Approx. 16 km
Defining Characteristics: City footpaths
Difficulty: 2½ on our 1-5 scale for day hikes
Speed: Medium pace

● First Timers & Regulars:
Welcome First Timers to Hiking Aotearoa, we look forward to meeting you. We ask Everyone to bring a gold coin donation to help pay for the website and more safety equipment for the group.
For those wishing to donate directly this is the bank account:
06-0145-0782760-00 - Many thanks

● PLEASE: No smoking, animals, children or guests.

● Health and Safety Information:
All Hiking Aotearoa organisers work on a strictly voluntary basis and hold NO responsibility or liability for any injury, or loss suffered during the events organised. Each person who participates accepts responsibility for making their own determinations and for their own safety, conduct and well being; recognising that there are hazards in attending group and outdoor activities and agrees to participate solely at their own risk.

● Preparation is the key to having a good day:

  • Check the weather - do you have the correct clothing and shoes?.
  • Do you know where the meeting places are?
  • Prepare everything you need to bring.

● Meeting Places and maps:
Meeting Place: Main Ferry Terminal by Queens wharf
Map of hiking route: https://bit.ly/4cQjP6R
Refreshments after hike: Good Home Onehunga (optional) https://bit.ly/3RBqBnr

● Carpooling:

  • No Carpooling will be arranged for this meetup.
  • However some people might offer rides from Onehunga back to the city if they pre-parked there car at the finish of the hike before the start.
  • If you want a ride or can offer rides from another location, you can mention this in Conversation below and contact each other to arrange.

Train Time Table from Onehunga:

● Time Guideline: All Times are Approx.

  • 09:30 - Good time to arrive besides the Ferry Building, meet & greet
  • 09:45 - Latest time to arrive besides Ferry Building
  • 09:50 - Start Hike
  • 12:30 - Approx. Lunch stop
  • 15:15 - Approx. finish hike
  • 15:30 - after Good Home for drinks (optional)

● Bring:

  • Day pack
  • Good walking shoos
  • Lunch and drink, (1-3L Water)
  • clothing suitable for the season
  • sun and emergency rain protection
  • first-aid items.

● Hike Description:
- The walk from the Viaduct Harbour along Customs Street takes you along reclaimed land. Catch glimpses of the Waitemata Harbour,
- Albert Park is the site of an old Māori village (papakainga) called Rangipuke, which once contained a defensive pā and farmland.
- The Auckland Museum located strategically on a part of the Auckland Domain sits on Pukekawa, the 'hill of bitter memories', which mourns the many slain in the 1820s musket wars. The museum, built in 1929, honours those who also died in the first world war.
- As you leave the Auckland Domain from the Carlton Gore exit, do not forget to visit Outhwaite Park on the other corner of this intersection.
- Maungawhau (Mt Eden) is the tallest volcano in Auckland, reaching 196 metres. The slopes of Maungawhau were once densely populated by Māori that shaped the hills steep scarps, terraces and kumara pits.
- Located on the slopes and adjacent to Maungawhau is Eden Gardens.
- Melville Park, located between St Andrews Road and Gillies Avenue,
- Sir John Logan Campbell, one of New Zealand's first European settlers, gifted the One Tree Hill estate to the people of New Zealand in 1901.
- Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) is the largest and most complex volcanic cone fortress in the southern hemisphere. .
- In 1912, John James Boyd opened a zoo in Onehunga.
- The Onehunga Blockhouse, located in Jellicoe Park
-Onehunga has the distinction of electing the first woman Mayor in the British Empire, Mrs Elizabeth Yates, in 1893.

● RSVP:
If you are unable to come please change your RSVP status otherwise you be marked as a no-show. 3 no-shows will get you barred from attending some hikes, so best to avoid that!

See you on Sunday - Karl

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