Saturday, 20 September 2008

North of the North


Yesterday we made it to the north of the North Island, Cape Reinga. This is real turkey country. No Kiwis but turkeys everywhere along the road sides plus the occassional dead possum. The scenery was quite impressive. After reaching the cape we had nowhere to go but south. We checked out big sand dunes at the start of the ninety mile beach. But because we had a hire car we could not drive the popular route along the beach and had to settle for a ferry crossing.



Today it was onwards further south, checking out the Kauri forest and the largest tree in NZ which is estimated to be some 2000 years old. The tree is far more impressive than the photo. We arrived in Waitomo Caves tonight and will be off to see glow worms tomorrow before heading on to Rotorua.

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