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we’ve move on from bay of islands and for the past two day's we've been traveling through north island, Firstly staying on track heading north once again, traveling thru Keirikeri, Whangoror, Kahoe, Then headed west for the bottom end of the ninety mile beach "Ahipara" Here we were hoping to surf some sand-Junes .The local board shop was shut so we took it on ourselves to go look for the Junes hoping there would be a surf board hire shop there. We kick old bettsy in to first gear and sped of for the hilly coast line , As we approached the bottom of the coast line you could see the huge Junes in the horizon up on top of the far of hill's " it was surprising how in land they were" . We came upon on a split in the road , so we had to make a choice , we hade the option to go left up the hill's or right back down to the coast line , as the Junes looked as thou they were up in the hill’s we chose left and headed of up a dusty old track. 20 min,s later we had a hunch we were on a wild goose chase. Making the most out of the situation we each cracked open a bottle of tui larger and sang the theme tune to Max and Paddy ( don't Know where were going , Got no way of Knowing, Going on a road to no where )"you Knows the tune" . Further up the track resembled a single red neck home ,bullet holes in the shed and a rusty old red pickup truck out side. And just like max and paddy's theme tune the road did indeed lead to no where . After a 100 point turn and a 40 minute ride back to the bottom where we started , we decided to F##$k the Junes off and head for the big Kauri trees. We drove long in to the late afternoon , through puketi forest, down through Kohukohu where we caught the ferry across to ranen , the it was an half hour drive where we found our campsite on the edge of the water at Hokianga harbor. We just about managed to grab a bag of fish and chips and a pint before closing. As we were on a tight budget we looked nosher up in the van toilet and told the owner there was only 3 of us on board . To our amusement we kept telling nosh the woman was out side. We managed to keep him in there for a further 15 minutes before he realized we were full of $#^t . We settled for a game of cards and a few beers to end the day.
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