After exactly two months in New Zealand, I am going to finally reach the furthest north point, something I’ll never forget.
First task, eating 🙂
Second task, helping a French couple to push their car stuck in the mud. Yesterday night they found the wrong place… While we tried to help a man came with a big tractor and the job was done in a minute 🙂 bloody French!
Packing up
Now it’s the time to reach our today’s destination. The road is very hilly but its quality is good. We can see on the west coast a huge sand dune, maybe bigger than Pilat dune near Bordeaux in France.
Wonderful view of the Tasman sea!
Now it’s the time to reach our today’s destination. The road is very hilly but its quality is good. We can see on the west coast a huge sand dune, maybe bigger than Pilat dune near Bordeaux in France.
Hilly road leading to Cap Reinga
We are approaching 🙂
Here it is 🙂
Closer…
And closer.
HERE I AM!!! After roughly 780km, I finally reached my first goal. That’s a strange feeling. Two months waiting for that moment and now it’s real. Wouhaaou!
We are more than 18000km from London! Can you see us?
Peter enjoying his time.
The tip of Cap Reinga
The clash between the sea and the ocean. The two powerful currents make the waves come from everywhere. It’s quite impressive and weird at the same time.
I feel strange to leave Cap Reinga behind. Will I see it again on day?
On the way down to the camp
One more empty beach.
Now, direction to Taputaputa Bay to sleep. It’s a DOC camp as well so it’s cool, free and beautiful :-).
Cold showers are on the left and the toilets on the right. Theses big pipes provide air flow for the composting toilets. These are so clean and smell very fresh. All DOC campsites uses them.
As always, it is so green and natural!
I hope I’m allowed to walk here because if that was not the case I will be found very easily… I thought it was a river at the beginning but with a closer look it’s not. That’s the same white sand we have seen before.
Waouh Damien, your photographs are touched me like that I wait for something me so ! Your joy was perceptible on your photo, and your sadness also !
What is the program now ? return to Reinga cape ?
Hello, in fact it was a really strange feeling to quit Cap Reinga. I wanted to go fast, I don’t know why.
Now, my plan is to come back to Auckland (I have no choice) by the west coast. The landscapes are really quite different, it’s more rocky. I’ll see:-). I’ll stay maybe some days in Auckland and I’m going to continue my way back to the south island by the east cost this time or the west I’m not sure yet. I have to check the winds. Maybe Sakouna should help me:-).
That’s my plan ! I will put the map of my actual trip since Kerikeri.
Bravo pour cette première étape que tu t’es apparemment fixée !!!! bravo bravo t’es vraiment le fou furieux qui n’a peur de rien de la famille !!! mais c’est ce qui fait ton charme !!! 😉 profites à fond et bonne 2 ème étape !!! ( si tu pouvais préciser en quoi elle consiste d’ailleurs ça serait top 😉
plein de gros bisous du nord de la France !!!!
Ahahha :DD it is just wouvv!!! these photos are also nice!!!!!!!! it must be the nord nord of the N.Z… et la fin, tu es la.. maintenant a quelle season est la? as tu commencé déjà de descendre vers le south? there is not any camping place near the cap reinga so you leave there so fast or you stayed couple of days?
Hello Cagda :-). Yep that’s the end of the end of new zealand and it’s still winter (I think) but the weather is nice. There is nothing else to do here so, we are coming back now. But you’re right, we should enjoy sometimes and stay on the same place a couple of nights. But when we start travelling, it’s like it’s so difficult to stop. I don’t know why?! 🙂