Wai the heke not?

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We've spent 5 days on Waiheke now. Enough to know it's New Zealand's best kept secret!! Check out the photoes and you'll see why.

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Photos

View from the balcony
Beach is 5 minutes away.

Onetangi beach
flat, clean white sand

Onetangi
planted grasses to keep the coastlines from erosion

Sunset Onetangi
Onetangi is in the north, sheltered side of Waiheke. The sun sets in the south of the island

Sunset
We didn't see much sunset over New Zealand but Waiheke seems to like red sky's

Matiatia harbour
The Fullers ferry is taking the daytrippers from Auckland back. We begin our 2 hour coastal walk to Mudbrick Vineyard. Gorgeous walk!!!

Walk uphill.
Dark clouds threatened, but it didn't rain. Thank goodness because when it rains you know all about it.

Top of the hill.
Time for some wine. Mudbrick vineyard was calling at the top of the hill. We breathed a sigh of relief because we were big time lost. Need to get a proper OS map of Waiheke. Anyone got one handy?

Mudbrick
Got the best table in the house as I booked months ago.

Enjoying the food and wine.
Didn't realise I could eat and drink so much

Sunset over Auckland
Mudbrick looks directly over Auckland and is famous for it's amazing views.

Waiheke Golf course
There's a really quiet 9 hole course 5 minutes by bus from Onetangi. How lucky is that?

Koru- at the front door
The Maori word for the unfurling leaf of the fern is koru. They use it a lot in their carvings. There's a Maori Marai (traditional village) on Waiheke that we'll visit.

Comments

[Rhona]

It looks gorgeous! I need to do a research trip to Mudbrick to try their wines!