WHAT’S SOUTH OF AUCKLAND? PART 2

Check out our Video Episode for this journey below! HAMILTON’S GAP / WAIMATUKU After leaving Āwhitu Regional Park, we noticed on WikiCamps there was an awesome beach and freedom camp on the west coast of the peninsula that we should check out. Waimatuku means ‘the waters of the matuku’. The matuku (bittern) is a swamp-dwelling …

WHAT’S SOUTH OF AUCKLAND?

After spending a long time in the Auckland Region, we decided to head straight through the city and explore the south Auckland Region, which we had not stopped in before. The original plan was to head to the Coromandel, but they were experiencing Cyclone Hale at the time so this would not have been fun …