If customers want to they are able to walk down into the volcanoes crater. Within 10 minutes, we switch off the city, by travelling to the rugged west coast of Auckland's Muriwai beach. We break up the 35 minute journey to Muriwai beach by visiting 2 wineries, an orchard and a local farm. At the wineries visitors can sample a range of award winning wines for FREE, and have each wine individually explained to them. Our guide will explain the operation of the orchard and we stop for a chat with the friendly orchardist.
Passengers can pick their own apples off the trees in season.
At the beach, we visit the Muriwai gannet colony, where passengers can view the famous gannets. Our guide provides information about the gannets way of life, behaviours and various rituals that occur. Depending on the stage of the breeding season at the time of the tour you may see anything from viscious fighting for territory, mating dances, laying of eggs, nesting, hatching eggs, feeding young and maturing chicks. We also take a short native bush walk and discover the beach caves, coastline and enjoy the black sand beach. Full day, Afternoon and Overnight Adventures.