Whitianga, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Teachers in Japan...
Dec 29, 2005

... much holiday I should receive and lots of other things that I have stored in the memory bank. At the moment, I'm obviously still in New Zealand so I am still thinking about that, but as soon as I get home I will switch my attention to Japan and do some ...

Re-Unions and Introductions
Nov 16, 2004 (6 photos)

... away and also mentioned that I dived myself and wouldn't mind getting a few for supper. I already knew that the scallop quota in New Zealand was twenty per person and they must be a minimum length of 100mm. The more people Jeff can get on that boat, the ...

Wound of Death
Nov 19, 2004

My foot's starting to get out of hand. I couldn't put any weight on it when I got up this morning. It's gone all pink around the wound and it's throbbing like hell. I guess all the salt water activity isn't giving it any opportunity to heal. Surfing ...

A Stroke of Luck
Nov 14, 2004 (1 photos)

... ! So here we are, Craig and I, sharing a dorm with a huge window overlooking the sea at 'On the Beach Backpackers' in Whitianga. It's clean, has lots of facilities and is run by a great couple. I'm sitting here legs outstretched on the wide 'sit-in' ...

The Animal Diver
Nov 18, 2004 (6 photos)

... gear. A well organised professional setup, just like Paihia Dive. This whole dive thing is quality. As Craig was starting his new job today, I'd managed to get Dean onboard instead who was quite keen to score a free boat ride. We took the long drive ...

Krazy kayaking and Spiritual Smokes
Feb 18, 2003

... ways for Xavier from France to get his nicotine fix as he had run out of rolling papers. It's amazing what you can do when you put your heads together. All in all, Whitianga is a cute little beach fishing town defintely worth a visit if you want to unwind.

Mount Maunganui - Thames- Whitianga
Apr 21, 2006 (9 photos)

... absolutely no way that the normal bus would have been able to get up these hills. We were travelling through an area of New Zealand called the Coromandel Peninsula, which is home to great beaches and native forest. Much of New Zealand used to be covered ...

End of day one on Magic bus
Jul 18, 2007 (5 photos)

... clear day and quite hot. Cann't believe it was warmer than home and its winter here. We stopped off in this little town Whitianga for the night and at this stage we've become great pals with another pair of Irish backpackers - Olivia and Damien - there ...

Back with Barbara at Albert No6
Mar 26, 2008

Came back to Barbara's, we will be running the place while she is away, so we have got a few days before we get started!!

The Coromandel Peninsula
Mar 8, 2008 (10 photos)

... because the underground water is HOT, I almost burnt a toe off. The water in the ocean, however is FREEZING! Overall, lots of fun! After a stop at Cooks Beach we headed back to Whitianga to celebrate Mary Ann's last night in New Zealand!!

The Coromandel
Feb 28, 2009 (5 photos)

... actually it was quite impressive, big limestone arch and rock formations. We then went on to our lovely B&B north of Whitianga at Kuaotunu Bay, overlooking a good beach. Really good meal out at the Golf Club,in Matarangi. The rains came as expected ...

Whitianga
Jan 13, 2009 (11 photos)

... zur Cooks Beach aber koennten da auch kein Zimmer finden, weil der Ort Stromausfall hatte. Also fuhren wir wieder zurueck nach Whitianga :-( und buchten beim YHA Backpacker, hatten ne Pizza im Fire Place Restaurant, wo wir zwei Mal ne falsche Rechnung ...

I am the Cow Carver Master!!
Jan 29, 2006

okay, so I was in Whitianga after I left Auckland. Cool little town. Stayed at the Cat's Pyjama's Backpackers ... funny owners. My first day there I found this carving store where they let you carve your own maori style necklace out of bone. So I made ...

Coromandel Peninsula
Jan 27, 2007 (3 photos)

... than anticipated. (again.... the itinerary is flexible, despite popular opinion, haha). We spent the last few hours walking around Whitianga and it's scenic beach. We've never seen so many shells just washed up on shore. Also we finally tried Lion's ...

Coromandel Peninsula
Jan 7, 2007 (3 photos)

... the peninsula, finally culminating in the Eyefull Tower viewpoint. The driver provides commentary too: "Anyone here from Auckland? Then welcome to New Zealand!" was a joke on the big city pace of life there. Doubly funny to us, since we see Auckland as a ...

die erste Arbeitswoche geschafft...
Nov 24, 2009

Jetzt schaffe ich es endlich mal wieder einen Blogeintrag zu verfassen. Eine Woche arbeite ich nun schon auf der Kiwiplantage und bin schon fast reich dadurch geworden...(mehr oder weniger) Unsere Aufgabenbereiche waren bis jetzt noch nicht all zu ...

Whitianga - Day 2
Feb 14, 2006 (4 photos)

... the view was absolutely amazing. I walked back down and wandered along Cooks Beach, before calling it a day and heading back to Whitianga. In the evening a bus load of people arrived, and hostel was absolutely full. So I made my way down to the beach ...

Mercury Bay - not that we'd know it!
May 5, 2006

... enough town, but since we'd only seen it at night or from the bus, we wouldn't know! The Zephyr bus pass is a great way to see New Zealand, but we all can't help but wish we had more time here, so we could hop on and off the bus at will, rather than see ...

More beautiful beaches!
Apr 10, 2006

... thames i headed along the coast past beautiful coves and then along the 309 road (another gravel road!) through the forest to whitianga. Along the way a saw a large square kauri tree and a waterfall and also a grove of kauri trees a bit further along. I ...

Whitianga
May 9, 2009 (4 photos)

... has awesome views over the city. Our driver Matt, then took us out of the city and heading to our first overnight stop, Whitianga (pronounced fit-e-anga). Along the way we stopped for a walk to a place called Cathedral cove. The walk was about 45 mins ...

Whitianga, or the Drosh of Ingrid
Dec 16, 2006

... The almost three-hour bus ride went up the eastern side of the peninsula before cutting across to Whitianga. The thing about traveling here in New Zealand is that there's usually only one way to go somewhere. Which is fine, because the countryside is ...

Whitianga
Aug 20, 2005 (4 photos)

... . Since it was still my birthday in America, I decided to celebrate it for one more day. I liked my American birthday in New Zealand better than my actual birhtday :) After my first day of driving around New Zealand, I believe why so many people say this ...

coromandel coast
Oct 11, 2008

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Heaven on Earth
Feb 13, 2006 (6 photos)

... . i contemplated skipping the walk and just sitting in the carpark....THANK GOD I DIDNT!! Cathedral cove is one of the most beautiful sights in new zealand! THe thing is by the time we got down to the cove we only had 10 minutes on the beach. so the next ...

Why is it raining on this side of the Equator?
Oct 1, 2007 (9 photos)

... up on a settlement with other hippies and then moved from a hippy settlement in the middle of the least densely populated area of New Zealand to Japan! she's different and thats great - she has one of her friends 6 year old kids coming on the bus with us ...

300 Schwuchteln muesst ihr sein...!
Apr 6, 2007

Wenn es 2 Sachen gab, auf die ich mich in Neuseeland RICHTIG gefreut hab', dann waren das auf jeden Fall der Skydive in Wanaka und der Kinostart von "300"... Nu hab ich auch letzteres hinter mich gebracht - und ich bin einigermassen geschockt, im Guten ...

Hot tub on the beach!
Mar 8, 2008

After a three hours drive from Whakatnae, we arrived in Whitianga. For some reason i was really tired on the drive here, must have been the sea air and the sickness!, so Vern did all the driving. We went to the YHA only to discover that our booking was ...

Beaches
Jan 11, 2006 (13 photos)

Tues (10th) I had a hell of a long journey travelling to Whitianga on the Coromandal today. Left at 10am and didn't get in till gone 4:30pm. So that night I was pretty tired and just hung around the hostel. A cute Japanese girl I happened to be on the bus ...

Whitianga
Feb 17, 2008

So we said some sad goodbyes to Barbara and Tahlia and started heading south, we knew this was now our time to make our way to the south island!!

The Coromandel peninsula. Focus style.
Dec 22, 2007 (20 photos)

After leaving the city with the car stocked up of tent equipment and food we headed off to see the Coromandel peninsula.  New Zealand is so familiar and very like home.  The fruit and veg they have here is just yum, even the kiwi's are nice ...