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Diving widow again
... complained about how hot and muggy it was then continued on our journey.
Next stop Whangarei (Fang-a-ray). We arrived at our bach and my heart sank a little. The photos showed views of boats across the river – hich was true to some extent. The angles of the photos were clever. They had just failed to take a picture of the warehouses and industrial area directly opposite. The bach ...
Whangerei - Wasser und Walks
... ich spontan ein kurzes Nickerchen gehalten hab.
Später bin ich dann endlich bei den Whangarei Falls rausgekommen. Das ist die Paris Hilton der neuseeländischen Wasserfäll – nicht der schönste aber definitiv der am meisten photografierteste! Natürlich habe ich meinen Teil dazu beigetragen! Schön war auch der Flusslauf mit seinen Steinen inmitten des wild und dicht gewachsenen Waldes. Schade, dass das Wasser zu kalt für ein kurzes Bad war. Zurück war ich ...
Week 2: Memoires of a Campervan called Al
... and I was right on top of it. It likely only took the 30 minutes the Scuba Store woman said it would… but hell it felt like forever, and at any moment I was ready for a shark or that octopus from The Goonies to grab me, and that would be the end. The video playing at the scuba place said the snorkeling would be good…. And the signs at Gemstone said the snorkeling was among the best in NZ. WRONG and WRONG. I have yet to experience ...
A Free Trip...Paid for with James' Blood
... were cooking up supper a cop car pulled up and we thought we were getting a fine for parking there but it turned out the cop stopped to check in the river because he was looking for something or someone...we didn`t quite get what it was he was looking for. This of course though made us nervous and after the cop left we quickly finished up making our supper, packed our stuff into the vehicle and locked all our doors and refused to get out again...we were a little on ...
Cathedral Cove and Reaching Northland
... started to overheat and get a bit sweaty we decided to make the hike back up to the car park, which was much more difficult going up and in the mid-day heat!
We had thought about checking out some more beaches in the Coromandel area but instead decided to move on and make our way through Auckland and onto the Northland.
We stopped quick in Auckland to stock up on groceries and then continued on to a campsite by a small town called Waipu to spend the night as it was getting ...


