just south of Auckland

The first day after we arrived on the North Island, I had to give a seminar all day, so Dave went exploring. We were staying in one of the southeast suburbs of Auckland, so Dave drove a little further south, outside the city. Here's what he saw. A few notes on the photos. The white car in one of the pictures is the rent-a-wreck we had the whole three weeks for an incredibly cheap price. (Gas is now just over $6 per gallon in US dollars, so getting around wasn't cheap.) And you'll see pampas grass in the last photo. We saw whole hillsides covered with it, but never managed to get a good photograph of one of those hillsides.