15 minutes of excitement in the ferry... not bcoz i've not been to ferry b4, but i'm heading my way to discover Devonport - a seaside village of historic architecture, volcanoes and landmarks as well as galleries and cafes, shops and restaurants. Oh yeah... talking bout food, we had a try of the most famous Fish & Chip in this island.
We trek our way up to Mt Victoria (maori called it Tauranguu), which gives us unobstructed views of downtown Auckland an across the harbour to the eastern bays. I was told there a tunnel in Devonport which can link to the other North Head (located less than 5km away). Sometime ago it was open for tourist to visit, several haunted experience was claimed and due to the high maintainance it was close there after. Almost reaching the top of Mt Victoria, the sky doesn't show a good sign to us, however we've almost reached to the peak so we thought must as well carry on with a few more foot steps.
It was so windy and chilling with drizzling weather, as normal reaction we just look for someplace for a shade. Guess what we saw??? A small solid steel gate which have a spiral stair case... right away silent between us! This might be the eerie tunnel which everyone been talking about. A minute later we just left and made our way down from the hill.
The peak and upper slopes have housed a signal station for shipping, artillery emplacements and various concrete army bunkers. One bunker now serves as the venue for the Devonport Folk Club.
North from Devonport coastline is an endless procession of sheltered coves and white-sand beaches which start out as suburban and become steadily more spectacular all the way to the tip of the North Island.
For more details, please visit: http://www.devonport.co.nz/
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