Cape Reinga Day trip -- Thursday Jan 10th

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Following up on my last entry... the weather did finally clear up, but not nearly in time for our "awesome adventure" to Cape Reinga. It was awful, awful stormy and we could hardly see anything. I can't remember whether I mentionned where the Cape is, but it is the very northern tip of New Zealand where the Tasman Sea meets the South Pacific Ocean. There's a lighthouse and gorgeous landscape... We treked down the path from our bus in what felt like a typhoon! I've been travelling mainly with a girl, Holly, from Washington State (just outside of Seattle), and she is a professional photographer. We tried to get some good photos while we were out there... luckily my camera is waterproof, but no camera was going to bring back the beauty we were supposed to be seeing that day! Yeesh! But we "weathered the storm" and made it down to the tip. We later did go sandboarding and it was actually a total riot. I just realized i have zero time left on my internet card, so i'll post this and get back to you with new items tomorrow!

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Photos

Lighthouse at "Cape Fog"
The rainstorm felt like a hurricane...

Cape Reinga - where the seas meet
Lighthouse again..

An intro to Holly.
I'm sure she'd hate that this is the first photo I'm putting up of both of us... it was a rough trip to the Cape

Cape Reinga
Where the Tasman sea meets the South Pacific

P1090353
colour editing is cool.

90 mile beach
The bus actually drove down this beach! also, New Zealanders are a pack of liars: it's really only about 64 miles.