The clifftop/shoreline walk at Long Bay has always been one of the list of perennial Club favourites,
and a showery day did not put off thirteen people from coming along, six of these, including two mothers
with young children met us at the north end of Long Bay beach.
Starting at the north end of Long
Bay beach we climbed up on the clifftop track, and had a look at the World War II gun emplacement - that
was one of many guns placed around the Auckland foreshore to ward off a Japanese invasion that never
eventuated. We then carried on along the clifftop track as it dipped down to sea level and rose again
to eventually round Piripiri Point and drop down to the Okura estuary foreshore. As we rounded the point,
we could look across to another perennial Club favourite, the Okura Walkway and Dacre Cottage.
Threatening
grey clouds in the western sky gave spits of rain as we began our return journey along the rocky - and
slippery - foreshore. There was nothing tricky except the very slippery rocks in too many places. In
fact as we arrived at the last beach before the end, all but five of us went back to the clifftop track
for the final stretch.
COST: $3
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