Cape Reinga is the most northern point of nz and where the tasman sea and pacific ocean meet, and you can actually see them meeting, where the waves from the two meet in the middle, the tasman sea also seemed alot greener......! We stopped off on a beach near Cape Reinga for lunch and it was the best beach so far, perfect sandy beach, no peebles or stones at all just sand and perfect clear water and small sets of breaking waves!! we sunbathed for abit they all r...

Al and charlie showed michala and i a waterfall they had discovered in the middle of nowhere, after some persuation i eventually jumped in (it was a steep and very scary climb down!!) but once it it was great to think we were the only people for miles around and in such a perfect waterfall!!!!!!!! we set up camp just upstream from the water fall and charlie build us a great campfire, and i practiced playing the guitar, been playing four days and i'm getting good...

Our road trip around the northland begins in Paihia, a nice little town in the Bay of Islands that you can imagine gets unbearably busy in summer! There was four of us for this part of the 'tour', of course myself, al and charlie, and another girl, Michala, who worked briefly with al and charlie in auckland. We set up camp on a small campsite just outside Paihia witch had its own beach onto which our tent opened! the campsite was by far the most luxurious of the...

Arrived in New Zealand very very tired and disorientated!! Kinds took it easy for the first few days, stayed mostly around Auckland and tried to get over my jet lag!! On the first day Al drove me down to Te Aroha to the worlds only natural soda spa...it was amazing after such a long journey! The soda water is really good for you as well and we were told not to shower afterwards. On the way to Te Aroha we took a scenic route along the east coast and i got my firs...