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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Devonport

Cheers!

Today we wanted to get out of the city a bit, but we slept in so missed the ferry we had planned to take to the nearby volcano. Instead, we took a drive across the bridge to nearby Devonport, a beautiful town with old Victorian style houses and two volcanic hills~ Mt Victoria and North Head. The views from both were beautiful.

Here is a view from North Head looking toward the city, but there were also great views of the nearby volcano Rangitoto and our neighborhood as well.

As you can see, North Head was used as a military fortress of sorts and had lots of tunnels and caves to be explored, as well as the remains of some 'disappearing cannons' that hide back underground from the recoil of the shot.

After exploring the hills, we went back into town to check out the antique shops, book stores and chotskies.  Overall it's not much different from many historic down town areas I've walked through in the US, but still charming and made even more so with the sea side and volcano and city views.

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