Blogs from Raglan, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 6

Raglan c'est la ville du Surf. Mais avant d'arriver on s'est arrêté pour admirer Bridal Vail Falls et comme son nom l'indique ces chutes ressemblent au voile de la mariée. Après 55 mètres de chute, l'eau arrive dans un petit bassin plein de verdure. Le site était très connu pour faire des descentes en rappel et pour se baigner mais maintenant les écologistes ont interdit ces pratiques pour préserver la flore délicate qui tapisse la partie inférieure de la chute. Au centre de Raglan rien de très spécial, mais par contre un peu plus au Sud, les plages de surf se suivent le long de la côte. L'une d'elle offre des vagues interminables pour les surfeurs. Mais il faut avoir de l'expérience car la plage n'est pas de sable mais de rochers et les vagues peuvent ... read more

Spent the day with the Raglan Surfing School doing a private surf lesson. The waves were great and the instruction really boosted my confidence in the water. Raglan was beautiful black sand beaches that went on for miles.... read more

Justed wrapped up 5 days of surf camp in Raglan. Stayed up at the Karioi backpacker lodge which took me back to the frat house college days. Despite the sharing of bunk beds and bathroom facilities, it was actually a lot of fun. Met a lot of great people from all over the world, all of whom were traveling for months if not years on end. Makes my 5 weeks in NZ seem like no time at all! The lodge was way up in the woods where there was no cell phone reception and barely a radio signal. But the common area did have a nice LCD TV, pool table, fooz ball, and everyone brought a good supply of booze. I even made my first apple bong. There was also an industrial sized kitchen where we ... read more

Today we woke up early to head down to Auckland. we wanted to go for a ride on the glassbottom boat in Leigh. When we got there we must have taken the wrong road or something because we couldn't find it. so we turned around and headed back to Auckland. We stopped at Shakspear park just outside of Auckland and took some pictures. Most of the pictures are of on the way. I bring my camera sometimes and other times just the Video camera. When we got to Auckland there was no rooms left anywhere in the backpackers to we keep driving and got to Raglan around 9 30pm. Set up our tents and went to sleep.... read more

After a good nights sleep, we cooked a big breakfast and sausage, beans, scrambled eggs and toast which went down exceedingly well especially after the few beers from the night before! As usual we were on the road by 10am and heading along the northern coast to Tauranga. We then headed inland towards Hamilton but it was raining so we only stopped briefly for money and fuel. Mark then realised he had left the precious lamb chops in Whakatane! Totally gutted, we pushed on toward the west coast. We stopped for lunch at the side of the road and made it to Raglan around 2.30pm. First stop was the butchers to replace our chops and then we checked into a scenic campsite. It was still raining but we played outside in the rain anyway. Once we ... read more