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Hello there,
This is our first proper blog.....
Okay so Wednesday we picked up our wonderful campervan from Escape Rentals. We have named her Maori Molly (or M+M for short). We have now spent two nights sleeping in our lovely van and 3 days travelling around the Northern end of NZ with Molly taking us on crazy winding routes.
After we picked up Molly we headed across Auckland to pick up our new point and shoot digital camera, for those shots where we didn't want to rick the big one.... its lovely and light blue... Then we were off! North along Route 1.
It took all atfernoon to get to our first campsite near Kaitaia. Once arrived we realised that we had no food and the place was pretty deserted so a Subway was our slightly healthy dinner choice. We have realised that we are not over the jet lag yet, James keeps waking up at 2ish and in a freaky role reversal is now waking me up.
Day two, due to our very early awakening, James and I head down to 90 mile beach to see the sun rise.... this was very lovely and we had a hot choc and cup of tea to celebrate. We then head up to Cape Regina, the northern most point of NZ. This was an interesting journey as New Zealand has taken it upon themselves to mend all their road network whilst we are trying to reach the Cape. We drove through miles of roadworks happening whilst we slowly drove through various levels of road surface.
Once at Cape Regina we were a bit disappointed we had come so far for a light house and a sign post, so once we took pictures we headed back down, via the bay of islands. We did a spot of shopping and bought a painting then headed down to Orewa near Auckland for our second night in the van.
We cooked for ourselves and did our first lot of laundry... yippee, domestic bliss. Then unfortunately, we fell asleep in the van before 8pm to be woken at 12 ish by a much needed pee stop. We really have to sort out this bloody jet lag.
Day three, today we left Orewa and headed back through Auckland to the Coromandel peninsula. It is stunning up here looks like a lovely place to live. We went to hot water beach and despite not knowing low tide times we manaaged to pitch up perfectly at 30 mins before low tide and 20 mins before a kiwi experience bus rocked up and it started to rain. We loved the craziness of digging into the sand and it being so hot it was too hot to stay in too long.
Catherdral Cove was our next stop and we were stunned by how beautiful it is... we again just missed the kiwi experience bus... this meant we were actually the only ones on the beach.
We are now safely at Shelly beach (top of Coromandel peninsula), I say safely as I had to drive some pretty crazy mountain roads..... talking of roads we started along an unsealed road until we saw a sign which spelt it out how dangerous this would have been.
We hope you enjoy reading about our adventures and we are off to Rotorua and Taupo next....
Katie and James xx
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