A sunny September Sunday afternoon brought out 25 people to do the Onepoto - Tuff Crater walk in Northcote, a trip the Club had done many times over the years and still proves popular. We started at the Onepoto Domain children’s playground, near where a group of people dressed in medieval costume were practising some jousting, and followed a bush track that eventually came out onto Exmouth Rd. The Onepoto Domain was an old volcanic crater, and the bush track went around its northeastern side.

At the end of Exmouth Rd we came into Heath Reserve and crossed the footbridge over the northern motorway to City of Cork Beach. A high tide added to the beauty of the place; had the tide been out the bay would be a large area of exposed mud and sand flats - hence the name Shoal Bay. The footbridge itself had a kink in it, caused by half of it having to be realigned following widening of the motorway.

From there we crossed back over the footbridge then took the track that skirted the southern edge of Tuff Crater, a tidal lagoon covered in mangroves. We went right around to the viewing platform at the western end of the lagoon, off St Peters St, for our afternoon tea stop. Afterwards we retraced our footsteps a short way then went up to Exmouth Rd, then down into the western side of Onepoto Domain, mostly along a grass track. The stream flowing through the domain made a lovely sight in the balmy sunshine. Eventually we came out to Tarahunga St on the southern side of Onepoto Domain. About half the group chose to go back to the car park to head home - by now it was about 4pm - while the rest of us did the short bush track along the Onepoto Stream to finish off. To sum it up, our leader Eileen added this to her handout notes: How awesome is the Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth! (Psalm 47:2)