North Head Visit
North Head is an amazing Auckland Icon. A former military base guarding the entry to Auckland harbour, riddled with tunnels and if you believe the stories – secret bricked in storage areas waiting to be pillaged by any lucky enough to find there way into them.
Google maps – North Head
However North Head for us was a great family trip, as the Kids, T and I donned head lamps and explored the tunnels, many carved out of the bedrock. Here are some of the pictures.
As we approach ANZAC day it is well worth considering the efforts our forefathers put in to protect us. This site, while never used in anger, was built without the advantages of our modern machinery, to protect us from a very real threat. The conditions that the servicemen lived and worked in here were better than many abroad but were not by any stretch of the imagination luxury.
We are here today because of there service and sacrifice. It is fitting that more and more of our youth are attending ANZAC day services. I know mine are.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
There were rumours of an aeroplane hidden somewhere on the site or an arms cache hidden there I seem to recall. And isn’t there a similar thing under Victoria Park in the middle of the city?
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andrewch Reply:
April 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
You do have to laugh don’t you. I know there are closed off tunnels, but most of those are because they were built in the late 18th Century and are in danger of collapse.
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