Sunday, 13 April 2014

Another Sunny Sunday Drive (North Shore)

Being Sunday, Mark and I took off on another (short) adventure. We are trying to get out of the house, away from the school work and housework each week for a little while. This week we had an errand to run on the North Shore area of Auckland. We pulled into the cute little beach community where the streets were cobblestone and lined with little shops. We parked, walked about, stopped for a coffee and took our coffee down onto the beach. This was a different beach from others we have been to as there was so much exposed limestone. Hanging onto the limestone were lots of little groups of muscles, and a few limpets. Mark had left his camera in the car, so you will have to take a peak of the area through the lens of my cell phone camera.



 It was a pretty warm day, even down on the beach. So much so that despite all of the people drinking coffee, reading books, eating ice cream and chips on the sandy beach before the exposed limestone, these gulls decided their time was better spent wading in the water.


Some of the limestone exposed rocks. Mark and I were commenting on how it almost looks like a very dry river bed or desert area. 


View from the beach. There are some houses along the cliff just outside of the frame and they were beautiful, large houses that had towers, stain glass windows and widows peaks. I can only imagine what their view of the beach must be like from their perch. 


One last look from further back on the beach, to see the exposed limestone rocks and the waves further out. After our stroll along the beach we headed back to the car, which was conveniently parked next to a grocery store as we had to pick up a few items. Along the walk we ran into this store, and had to go in to investigate. 



They had a massive selection of tea, so many jams and shortbread cookies you could hardly count them all (there is a fig and date spread that I think would be delicious with chicken and feta...it's now on the to do list). They also had a lot of chips, cheeses and other general UK groceries. We did, however, take a photo of the Scott's Porage Oats for Mark's grandmother. 


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