Our last touring day in New Zealand, as it turned out, included the town of Waipu and a walk on the beach at Mangawhai Heads. After that--we had other irons, other travels, in the fires--we drove straightaway to Auckland and the Manukau Top Ten Holiday Park and there commenced the usual reorganizing/repacking operation in preparation for our departure on Monday the 31st.
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Waipu is a major historical site for Scots in New Zealand;
some 900 Highlanders settled here and then fanned out, in
the mid-19th century; the McKays, Vicki proudly notes,
among the Clans |
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| A bit of the story... |
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There are building murals all over NZ, and I probably have not
represented them well; here is one, anyhow, in Waipu |
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| Another beach--Mangawhai--another school field trip |
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| The head |
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| Mineral-laden boulders along the beach |
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| And nice houses and wind mobiles |
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| Looking south |
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| And north; low-tide of course |
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| Dunes beneath the cliffs |
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| Island and sea stack across the bay |
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