Blogs from Cape Reinga, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 6

DATE VISITED; 12,13,14 ISH OF DECEMBER 07 I forgot to mention in the Russell entry that in addition to it taking about 3 hours to get there from Auckland, it took the same amount of time for e to recover from my traffic offence! Yes thats right - 3 days in and I get pulled up by the cops already! Looking back I can smile but at the time I was livid. Hovering through an amber a bit flustered - trying to escape the city for the North cost me 70 quid! He was pleasant enough and was actually interested in my job and what we were doing here - but it didn't distract me from the blow of the fine. I'll treat ambers as 'early reds' than 'late green's' from now on! We tried to ... read more

Hey guys, due to my outstanding upselling skills I got this price from the hotel I work at: Auckland - Bay of Islands - Cape Reinga Fly / Drive Day Tour . 12 hours of travelling by cessna, car and walking around the northland to the most beautiful places. Cape Reinga is located at the northern end of the North Island of New Zealand. The name of the cape comes from the Māori word 'Reinga', meaning the 'Underworld'. It refers to the Māori belief that the cape is the point where the spirits of the dead enter the underworld. In fact the Tasmanian Sea and the Pacifiv are clashing together there - you can see and hear it!!! Ninety Mile Beach is a beach located on the western coast of the far north of the North ... read more

Today I bade Paihia farewell en tearfully boarded the bus back to Auckland...somehow my 4 week stint of cleaning at the Mousetrap snowballed into 5 months and 6 jobs and I loved most minutes of it! I really enjoyed working for Larry (the owner of the ice cream store that I deflected to) but after 6 weeks of dealing with incompetent customers I was ready for a break...the average day involved the repetition of the following conversation at least 50 times: me : "hi ya, what can I get for you" customer: "i'm still looking...you have too many flavours.............i'll have the hokey pokey" me : "sure, would you like a single or double scoop" customer: "hmmm.....hmmmm.......hmmmmm....a single please" me : "would you like that in a waffle or regular cone?" customer: "just the hokey pokey" me ... read more

“Next time I’m gonna hang me undies on your heated towel rack,” Marty shouted as we waved good bye to the hosts, Tom and Monic, of the Lakeside B and B located at the bottom end of New Zealand’s 90 Mile beach. Marty was the guide we had hired to take us the close to 90 miles to Cape Reinga, accessible by beach only in a four wheel drive. I had just finished telling him as we jumped into his not new van that the bed and breakfast was really perfect. Built by Tom who is a life long resident of the area and a scallop fisherman, and operated by his lovely Swiss wife Monic, it was a great find …a taste of pure luxury for a much less than luxury price. The minute I mentioned ... read more

A very long way to go - nothing but land, sea and winding gravel roads for miles but the view at the end is Fantastic.... read more