Te Henga Walkway (hike for Lance/wine for Maggie)

There's a gorgeous 8 km hike connecting two black-sand beaches on the west coast (Bethells and Muriwai) called the Te Henga.  It's a section of the Hillary Trail, a 76 km hike around the Waitakere Mountain Range, named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who was the first person to summit Mount Everest.  The Te Henga is Lance's favorite hike and he's done it 5 times now, but only once in completion.  In January he was finally able to go the full length because I dropped him and our friend, Kevin, off on one end and picked them up at the other.  They did the 4 hour trek with their sons on their backs while I kicked back in the Kumeu wine region in between.  They hit some storm clouds near the end, but overall they had a lovely day for it and got some gorgeous pictures.
Lance really wanted to go back again with both me and James to get a family picture at the top, so we went back again in March.  The pictures below are from both trips.