Rangitoto

A boat trip from Auckland to an island that was an active volcano a few hundred years ago.		Rangitoto (Department of Conservation)
	It's only a small island, but there is a variety of things to see from lava flows (above) to mangrove swamps (albeit a small one) (right).
		We walked through a lava tube. (left)
	Kidney Fern Glen (left) The crater (right)
The island is in the background on the cover of Songs From The Front Lawn.		The jetty where the ferry docked.

All photos taken by carolyn, April 1999