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Whitianga Slideshow
Whitianga
Travel Blogs from Whitianga, New Zealand
Whitianga
... to them for the duration of the walk! Anyway the walk was really surprisingly tropical, pretty stunning scenery, our first real glimpse of New Zealand outside of a city. It was great to get of the bus and do something in the main it felt like we were ...
It's raining...
... the toilet so he took a quick bush walk before he began driving the last stretch of the journey. We arrived at Whitianga and called off at 'New World' supermarket so that we wouldn't have to tackle the rain later in the evening. It was only after driving ...
We'll Dig Our Own Hot Tub
After the Glow Worm Caves, we headed up to the Coromandel Pennisula. We found a hostel and got the tide times for the following morning. We woke up early so we could get to Hot Water Beach for Low tide. This beach has two fissures that run through it ...
Lazy Saturday
... circles overhead in a Cessna.. ;-) Anyway, after some extra information regarding the differences between flying in Belgium and flying in New Zealand, Niko did receive his sticker saying that he's OK to fly here, so he'll be turning in his paperwork ...
To the tip and back
... like winter to me - espically after Raro! Oh well. We drive on and call in at Kuaotunu, before deciding upon a backpackers in Whitianga for the night. Here we meet a strange crowd all sheltering from the elements. And Andy gets to see his country through ...
Good day Kiwi Experience!!!
... you hit water. If you kept digging the water started to become hot. This was due to the Australian tech tonic plate and New Zealand tech tonic plate meeting together and letting the water rush up through the ground to this tiny spot. The group were ...
Carving at the bone
... . Although I didn't realise that until watching the film later! The cove frames the blue waters beautifully. I had no idea that New Zealand had this kind of scenery, it looked more like South East Asia, with large rocks protruding proudly from the ...
Whitianga
... collected in Reception and headed out to explore town. It was very quiet, a lot of the houses I think are holiday homes. Whitianga is pronounced "fit-ee-anga". There were lovely tall palm trees lining the beach front and I walked down Main street where ...
Wrong Place!!
24/7 Left our campsite to head East to Tauranga and then North towards Whitianga. Arrived in Tauranga - what a lovely town - smallish and VERY friendly. Had a couple of Guinness and talked to a party who were celebrating a 60th birthday. All ages in the ...
Not What We Had Planned
It was a gorgeous day, but it was not the day we had planned. We started out with breakfast in the park and headed up toward the Cathedral Caves. Unfortunately, the steps to the caves had been swept away by last week's cyclone and the entrance had been ...
Yeah, it rained...
We left Auckland super early. On our way to Whitianga (the wh = f so fitianga really), also called Mercury Bay, we stopped off at Cathedral Cove, a really pretty beach that's a 40 min walk, with caves cut into the rock. We were supposed to ...
Campervan Day 1....storm forecast!!
Today New Zealand is supposed to be battered by a really bad storm and today is the day we pick up the campervan!!!! We got up early and were on the airport bus at 9.30am and it was really windy and raining. We were told that the previous users of ...
Just Like Home
We have finally left the sun in Fiji, and arrived in New Zealand. It`s so like England it`s unbelievable, it`s been raining since we got here. We have hired a car for $20 per day, that`s about eight pounds. Despite the rain, first impressions of NZ ...
Whitianga bay
oooops....sorry y'all for the lack of updates. My mac decided it was time for bed and never awoke!!..but hey, its getting fixed so I should be up and running in the next week. So much to tell, but I am too busy having too much fun just like you guys and ...
Cook's Bay outdoors
Today, the weather invites us to go outside for a nice walk on the beach. David cannot resist the temptation of trying the skimming board in the garage. It's quite fun to watch him riding on the waves. (See picture below). More Beethoven, more reading ...
Cook's Bay
Well, what can we tell you more than this place is a real treat! We sleep in and read a book each of us over these three days under a rainfall that is sometimes light and sometimes stormy. The quince tree in the backyard has lots of fruit and those ...
Cook's Bay
What a beautiful place we discover this morning. We are sitting in the living room, the fire is on and Beethoven is playing for us while the rain is falling in showers. The Sea is right out there, but we are both enjoying the cosiness of being inside, ...
Whitianga
Whitianga (prenounced fit-ti-an-ga!) We got here and stayed 2 nights. On the way there we stopped at the top of a big hill for a photo stop which was cool. We also stopped at cathedral cove which was really cool, had a lovely little beach but was quite a ...
Its those things that make you go Humm....
So Christine and I are still in Whiittanga and staying in a little old school trailer we decided to make the best of our time here and do some laundry and get ourselves straight before going to Rotorua. We were doing all right finished 2 loads of ...
Last Stop
... made it back in time to eat. We didn't have any more energy to do anything else that night after that. Our last full day in New Zealand was once again an active one. Today we would hire the free kayaks and go around the bay. Our original plan was to ...
A Relaxing Day
... to sit there for an hour or two. We resisted the temptation to hire a spade for $5 and moved on. We moved on to Whitianga. Lovely bay, lots of boats and lots of holiday homes here but quite quiet at this time of year. Checked in to the Mercury Bay ...
Whitianga
Von Auckland gings dann los auf die Coromandel Peninsula nach Whitianga. Als wir in Auckland losfuhren fuhren wir noch kurz auf den Mt Eden, von wo man einen herrlichen Blick auf die Stadt hatte. Das krasse an Mt Eden ist, dass die Sadt dort Kuehe ...
NARNIA!
... I was at the Gateway backpackers. I did stop at Kawakawa to have a quick loo break; Kawakawa is a small, typical New Zealand country town made famous by the Hundertwasser public toilets which were probably the most interesting public loos in the world! ...
The rain has followed us!
A lovely little town and we stayed right on the front by the marina. Downstairs was Salts restaurant which was excellent and a pub called the Blacksmiths which was entertaining. We have now reached a country where the price of everything has come ...
This Place was My Favorite
We finally made it to the Coromandel peninsula, the most awaited part of my trip in the north island thus far, and by far my most favorite. It had the best beaches, most picturesque landscape and really allowed for the most relaxing time. We got here and ...
