From Sand Dunes to the Kauri Forests and onto Glow Worms and BIG Eels during our nightime adventure: Photos 21 to 29

Sunday 21st September (half an island done!)

We set the alarm on Pili’s phone for 6:00am to catch and film the sunrise, WOW it was really worth facing the cold of the morning. This was Pili’s first full sunrise, she’ll never forget it either, stood on the very northern point of New Zealand and capturing it all on film, it was a great moment to share together.

Invigorated by the magic we had just witnessed we set out for an hours walk along the headland to get a better view of the beaches from above, all before breakfast. We worked up quite a sweat, not realising quite how steep some of the path was.

When we returned to the van I made us breakfast and we met our neighbours in the adjacent van. Matt and Mel were from Stourbridge and Walsall, what a small World!! We found that we were all heading the same direction, (obviously as we’d ran out of land), and concluded that we should travel together, first heading for the GIANT sand-dunes and try our hand at Dune Surfing. When we arrived the guy who rents out the Dune Board had decided to have a

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