One of the most fascinating day trips from Auckland is to Rangitoto Island, less than half an hour’s ferry journey from the CBD. It would be hard to call the island beautiful – it’s covered in fields of broken volcanic rock that look like giant, smashed up Oreo biscuit. The rock is brittle and unstable, […]
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