Two days, two volcanoes

Hello and welcome to our blog. We're hoping to use this to write about all our adventures in New Zealand - hiking, biking, skiing and the like. Hopefully this will keep some of you back home up to date on what we've been up to and may also be useful for those of you who come to visit!

As yet, our main adventure has been house-hunting, but we've had time to do a little walking. Auckland is built on more than 50 volcanoes, and in the past two days we've been up two of them.

This is the view from the top of Mount Victoria in Devonport across to Rangitoto - Auckland's newest volcano. The strange mushroom things we believe to be airvents from underneath... for something...



And this is the view from the top of Mount Eden, across the town where you can see several more volcanoes sticking up above the houses.


Let's just hope none of them suddenly decide to become active again...