Sunday, 14 September 2008

NZ so far!

Cape Reinga

I'm hoping the other 100 Must Do's in NZ are slightly better than these toilets

The view of Auckland from One Tree Hill


Whanengarei Falls

After messing around in Auckland for a few days, going up extinct volcano craters and having trouble parking, we set off up North towards imaginatively titled 'Northland' to the very Northernmost tip of the country. Up in Cape Reinga, you can actually look out and see where the Pacific and the Tasman Oceans meet and collide, its awesome! Plus there is a really good view at the tip with a few islands and these enormous sand dunes! The 2 hours windy dirt road was worth it! Since then we have been coming back down South through Auckland stopping at all the 'brown signed' areas (that's tourist attraction signs to you guys). One of the highlights has to be the Kawiti glow worm caves, which are obviously caves, that are inhabited by glow worms! There are a few in NZ but we picked the best one, one that had no other visitors and was run by some guy who seemed to be our age but had clearly spent too much time in the caves, with his glow worms. It was good to see though and we were the only people on the tour with him (suprise suprise) and we looked up and the worms looked like stars! Really bright! We have also been following the 101 'Must Dos' in NZ, one of these being none other than some public toilets in a place called Kawakawa! So we went, we saw, and we left...relieved!

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