Our purpose

The overall purpose of this blog is to document our journey of discovery of the city of Auckland. Despite having lived in this city for a good many years we realised that we were creatures of habit, shopping in the same suburbs, travelling the same roads to and from work only really exploring in detail our immediate surroundings. Yet this city is vast, vibrant and teeming with variety so as we began to look deeper and further afield we started to open our eyes, to see things we had walked or driven passed on many occasions but never stopped to really notice or explore. Were others in the same situation we thought? Hence the book, our way of attempting to encourage others to see Auckland a little differently. The posts on our blog will follow the theme of the book and present topics based around groups of activities or places to visit. These will include things such as waterfalls, birdlife, council facilities, art works, bush walks and more. We hope the reader will find a few new discoveries for themselves along the way.