This picture is of Mount Rangitoto that we see every morning from our patio as the sun rises. We took a half day P-Day this morning and drove to
the Devonport Wharf and caught a ferry boat for the 15 minute ride to the island of Rangitoto. We took what was advertised as an easy one hour hike to the top of the volcano and looked down into the crater. It took us 1 1/2 hours up and another hour to return to the ferry boat. The volcano erupted about 600 years ago and was semi-active for 200 years before all activity ceased. The eruption created the island of Rangitoto that is connected by a causeway to an island to the east that had been occupied prior to the eruption by Maoris’. Rangitoto is currently uninhabited, though there were summer and longer term residents in the 1930’s but the City Council of Auckland succeeded in forcing recent residents to leave the island and they gave the longer term residents20 years to re-locate. The people had lived in Baches (small cottages) and about 100 baches still exist and some are being preserved as historic sites.
the Devonport Wharf and caught a ferry boat for the 15 minute ride to the island of Rangitoto. We took what was advertised as an easy one hour hike to the top of the volcano and looked down into the crater. It took us 1 1/2 hours up and another hour to return to the ferry boat. The volcano erupted about 600 years ago and was semi-active for 200 years before all activity ceased. The eruption created the island of Rangitoto that is connected by a causeway to an island to the east that had been occupied prior to the eruption by Maoris’. Rangitoto is currently uninhabited, though there were summer and longer term residents in the 1930’s but the City Council of Auckland succeeded in forcing recent residents to leave the island and they gave the longer term residents20 years to re-locate. The people had lived in Baches (small cottages) and about 100 baches still exist and some are being preserved as historic sites.
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