March 6, 2021
Mal’s sister and brother-in-law, Christine and Bill, live on a hilltop overlooking idyllic New Zealand farmland and beyond to Pakiri Beach. Pakiri is about an hour’s drive north of Auckland on the east coast. “Pa” is Maori for village or fortified settlement and Kiri refers to Te Kiri, a local Maori chief. Hence Pa-kiri.
This is the view we woke up to.
We decided to go for a morning walk down the hill from their house to the main road and back. It wasn’t the longest walk that we have done but it was definitely one of the most strenuous, as we walked back from the road up the hill to the house. The pictures don’t do justice to how steep the incline really was, but take our word for it!
In the late afternoon we went for a long walk along Pakiri beach with Christine.
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Mal and Lauren 