Earlier this year I saw a piece of land advertised that caught my attention right away. I had been looking on and off for a while, but never really seriously. Thus, I had a bit of an overview about what was on offer, for what prices, in what areas. I always said that if I buy land for a bach (for non-Kiwis: bach = cabin/cottage. For South Islanders: bach = crib ;-), it would have to be relatively close to Auckland, not more than 3 hours driving time. If it was further away, we wouldn't go up there for a weekend, but just a couple of times a year for holidays. This one is just over 2 hours away from Auckland, and I could convince Neil to come along and have a look at it. What can I say? We both fell in love with it immediately. Even the drive to it already "felt right", and once we got to the entrance gate, and drove up to the land we loved it. And when we got onto the land and saw the view, we were hooked! To cut a long story short: I put in an offer and got to buy it. Not without hiccups, but we got it!
Here are a few photos:
The gate at the access road. There are five lots up here, and three are still available. One was sold last year, so we pretty much had free choice, and think we got the nicest one!
Our land comprises of a small piece of forest (about 30 large pine trees - across the access road is the real forest), a well prepared building site, and a large steeply sloping part, which makes the largest part of the land, and is a conservation area. Overall, the section is just under 8,000 m2.
The driveway from the access road to our site
The building site, facing East
The building site, facing West
And - tadaaaa! - the view over Kaipara Harbour!
Google Earth has only an old photo in their system (from 2004), so lots of details are still missing. But I put a yellow rectangle roughly where our lot is.
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