Our road trip around NZ would soon be ending, but before we sold our wheels in Auckland, we had one final road to tear up - the twin coastal explorer route in the Northland where we travelled north bound via the East coast and looped back down on the western highway. From the advice of travellers who've walked these shores before - Carolyn, Paul and Mamma and Pappa Ramsey, we knew that this area, particularly the Bay of Islands, was a highlight of NZ. Being the northern most region of the North Island, much of the vegation and associated fauna is sub-tropical, a tonic to the rolling arable land which dominates most of the rest of the North Island. After a very long and tumultuous journey from the Coramandel Peninsula we arrive in Paihia, the departure
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