One Tree Hill

This used to be Auckland’s most distinctive landmark, a single wind-blown tree on top of its highest (extinct) volcano. There’s only an obelisk there now, because the tree that was there on our first visit here was chain-sawed down by a Maori activist several years ago. It’s over a kilometer to the top up a steep winding road that circles its way to the top. We walked up it one afternoon, but forgot the camera to record the view from the top. Some people passed us jogging up to the top and back down but that’s still beyond me.