Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Children holding cutouts of truffula trees listen to a reading of Dr Seuss's "The Lorax" in Avondale.

The standing and the fallen: Avondaleans are trying to save what's left of a rare copse of native trees on Rosebank Peninsula.

Kennedy gets into the Lorax spirit.

The restored Cornwallis wharf, a feature of the Manukau Harbour for almost 100 years.

Mossy rocks under a canopy of pohutukawa on Cornwallis beach.

Pohutukawa roots seem glued to a rock face at Cornwallis beach.