New Zealand from North to South Part 1 North Island Tutukaka to Cape Reinga and back 19th/20th January I had already been in New Zealand for a fews months but I only started hitching in Tutukaka. I bused my way from Christchurch to Wellington, then got a mix of lifts and buses to Whangerei. From there I needed to get to Tutukaka, a tiny place on the east coast of the North Island from where boats leave to dive the fabulous Poor Knights Islands. As I was looking for a job as a dive instructor, it was the place for me. There are no buses to Tutukaka, therefore I had to hitch. Just outside Whangerei, I waited twenty minutes and an English guy picked me up who wanted to dive the next day. He got me
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