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Terra and Tide: Back down to earth at Waiheke Island
17 Dec, 2020 11:00 PM
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Waiheke Island view facing Auckland city and Rangitoto Island. Photo / Samantha Olley When you re stuck in the city you don t realise what treasures are right on your back doorstep.
Terra and Tide owner Gabrielle Young summed up our tour with that very sentence, as we cruised around Waiheke Island s northern shores.
When I lived in Auckland for 18 months, I never went to the island, despite the 35-minute ferry ride from the CBD being shorter than many of my car trips with flatmates to various parts of the city.