Cape Reinga was beautiful!

got up early to be on the bus at 7.10am! so caught up on some sleep on the first leg of the journey! our first stop was to look at some massive trees! Koari trees! yep they were big and had funny looking bark other than that they were trees.

we then stopped at a bakery to get breakfast and to get our lunch as it was the last shops for miles! well the last shop we were stopping at anyway. shaun got his usual things of cream cakes and anything that was full of sugar so he was geared for the day!

after that we went for a drive down Ninety Mile Beach well more like 96k but hey who's counting?!?!?! was a lot like fraser island in places but it was nice. then came the sand boarding! climbed a massive sand dune and then went down it on a boggie board. that's the only way to describe it really!'i thought I was going to die climbing up! was good fun and def worth it!'

we then had lunch at a pretty beach! the lads all grabbed a board and hit the waves! i lay in the sun on the grass and very much enjoyed my pizza bread!

another walk to a lighthouse that is very important to the Maori people. it is the place that their souls travel to before they leave the land! very deep!

our last two stops of the day was a wood work place where they sell stuff from the massive koari trees and a fish and chip shop! the shop was good and hugely expensive but the fish and chips were very nice indeed!

so that was the end of our day trip up to the very north of the north island of NZ!

that night back at the hostel we got talked into going hunting for muscles! didn't do to badly and found some huge ones! took them back and cooked and ate them! well didn't eat all of them as we had so many so we put the back into the sea for another day! what good people we are!

we headed back to Auckland and decided we wanted to go to the cinema! haven't been to one since Singapore! long time for me! watched Avatar in the IMAX! wow what a big screen! biggest I've ever seen. good film as well!

so finally today we got up posted some stuff home, tried to get a tax code but as i have no drivers licence i cant get one for a while! grr then off to the bank to open an account but they didn't have any time so that was a bum as well! so basically the day is sort of over and we have been guaranteed a fruit picking job up north so im thinking i will head up on saturday or sunday but shaun want to see if he can get something better but im pretty happy with the kiwi pickings!

we will see

much love

charlie and shaun

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