This weekend we were stationed back at the ACB hostel in central Auckland - in a dorm room with 4 of the other volunteers. Although the hostel isn't as comfortable as the volunteer house, it does have an ideal location for heading into town for a night out or doing shopping during the day.
Again on the Friday night we headed out for a few drinks in Auckland, this time heading to a Belgian bar selling expensive beer in pretentious glasses, and then over to a bar at one of the other hostels. On Saturday we took the ferry out to an island in Auckland bay called Rangitoto Island - a huge volcanoe that extrudes from the ocean forming an island and has been dormant for around 600 years. The landscape in and around Auckland is dominated by extinct volcanoes such as Mt Albert, Mt Eden, Mt Roskill and of course Rangitoto. Rangitoto offers one of the best examples of a volcanic dome as there has been no development on it and the crater is untouched by man. It is one of the newest volcanic craters in the Auckland area. We took the hour walk to the top of the cone which is quite shallow due to the runny nature of the lava when the eruption occured. From the top we had the oppotunity to walk all the way around the perfectly formed crater and sample the exeptional view of all of Auckland back across the bay.
On Sunday the weather was awful so we moped around the hostel for most of the day - in the evening the rain got so heavy that we were evacuated from the hostel as the rain set off the fire sensors!
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