November 28, 2023
Our dear cousin, Annette, led us on a tour through her neighborhood, Westmere. We started walking through the neighborhood’s streets, where, like most Auckland suburbs, there is a vibrant mix of older and newer homes.
We then walked down into a trail that winds around the harbor and through some marshland.
Automobile of the day is this ute. For our non-antipodean readers, a ute is short for utility vehicle. Back when Mal was growing up in New Zealand, there weren’t any pickup trucks. Rather there were utes, which were basically, a station wagon with the top cut off. This is a newer more spruced up version.
Mal and Lauren 