"We met Pohatu and Ethan who were renovating a hundred year old building back to a bar and a hotel for backpackers. We showed up in time to help clean and do the dirty work before t ..."
"Our journey south in Northland followed the west coast and the Tasman sea. We had been told that the west coast was really quite boring with nothing much to see or do but we couldn ..."
"Not a lot to say here except we had a good nights sleep after a long journey down from KohuKohu. We owed it to my sister Helen to check it out, but it was just a sleepy littl ..."
"The rolling countryside to the south of Waipoua forest is punctuated by extinct volcanoes, one of which, Tokatoka Peak, we stopped off at to climb. It was fairly steep and tough go ..."
"So I had my first day of work today at the Orchard. All you do is pick macadamia nuts off a tree with prickly leaves as fast as you can. They fall into nets which you then pour int ..."
Helensville, New Zealand - Travel Blogs
