Muriwai Beach Bach

We had five free days, so decided to get out of Auckland and stay at one of its rugged west coast beaches. We found a bach online at Muriwai Beach, high on the hill that overlooks the ocean, so off we went. It turned out to be a great decision.

The bach has a private set of stairs and steps and ramps to get down to the main road. 106 of them! We walked up and down every day, to get to the small cafe at the beach and to walk the beach or see the gannet colony. Sometimes I had to rest halfway back up, if we'd had a particularly strenous walk around the beach hills.