Preface:
Hey Mates, sorry it again Bißle lasted longer, but we have experienced so much and found so little time to write. Also, the internet costs in the North gleichmal 3 times than in Auckland and is only partially available. So a lot of stuff (stuff) for you to read. Does it to you one who knows when we reflect what! : P
BYE BYE Meadow Song Farm! We have left the farm with her wonderful people behind us and are now en route to the north. The road north was lonely and difficult. The landscape was traversed by green Huegelketten long, lonely winding roads, tiny villages and deep jungle forests. Before we reached Ahipara after 7h trip, also had a bay to be overcome by ferryboat. Since it rained all day had, we were compensated at the end with a beautiful sunset (see picture). In the beginning 90Mile Ahipara Beach and of course we did not let it take the same time on the beach to shoot a round with the car.
We are a property of the "Other" Art nahegelaegendem searched on a campsite where we schlufen in so-called "Cabins". Generous one could also call it Kanickelbuchten. 2 beds, a table and a trash can adorned the 6m2 space in the Spartan style.
The showers were outside, as usual, it was ever before the one in Pueschie (Sleepwear) and flip-flops over the place had to scurry. Of the bathroom at night proved to be bleak and cold. We want to now complain here, we are falls backpackers and our aim from day to day. It was cheap and nice and reasonably clean.
The day after!
The next morning we expected a glorious day with bright sunshine. We went to Cape Reinga, the northernmost tip of the country. A truly spiritual place, as we had learned. But back to that later.
scheinde endless beaches also have (unfortunately) is over! At first it was to overcome the 90Mile Beach. I know not who has since settled, but we only had 62Milen on the odometer, that is 102km. rumzugurken The fun on the beach did but no Abbriss. Left the sea, the right meter high sand dunes, before and hinteruns - NOTHING:) What more could you want?
The sand was sometimes so strong that it easily reached the 100km / h, but alas it any water supply comes from land. Then it was schonmal slightly bumpy.
We played so wild pig, trying out our Bullenfaenger Moewenfaenger one to make. The soundtrack was this whole drama of the music of the Beach Boys. The flying "rats of the sea" as I call it love, turns out to be extremely clever and quick and so we let it also be good. And before the Humane Society like crying. No, there were no animals harmed and we had it not really happening: P (you never know who will read above)
From Mile 50, it was then but a little monotonous, so we went in search of an exit. The only way leading out was a small river bed of quicksand in which we defied easy thanks to 4x4. Locker, we overcame this exciting place and it was only a stone's throw from the Cape.
(If you can not advance a procedure would have * cough *) At the tip of the North Island! finally arrived, it went through a small portal with a Maori theme. Everywhere were signs mounted that about the spiritual significance of place for enlightening the Maori (natives). Eating and Drinking was therefore not allowed and so we pushed us unnoticed even fix a Muesliriegel behind before it went to 20 minute walk, which led to the famous lighthouse. We fought through crowds of bus tourists and out-dated loose the mid 80s samples,
where you could get the belief that people come to her death.
According to Maori belief that, not so after weighing, since this is growing on a hillside
a freak of nature. A 800-year old "no idea again now was called" tree, shimmy down to the supposedly the souls of the dead, to start their final journey. I wondered at that moment, rather what would happen to that of the idea is, simply shorten for the thing? He would be famous for sure, but popular? ... You do not know! I tried to catch a whiff of this spiritual place, but more than the smell of a delicious cheese sandwich I could not receive. WHAT! Eating is banned here, I thought? Anscheind was for the Americans .... Tssse!
Well, now the cap is not only an attraction for the dying people, but also the meeting place of the Tasman Sea and the Pacific. And who wants to know the full explanation should come from complacent self, for it is incredibly impressive. We would have this spectacle could watch for hours, but have since then made the coffee terrorists crossing the road, it was Time for us to move on before anyone could come up with the idea to have it all hang out. (I love this word game, if it sounds a bit macabre Half of hats probably not eh gathered. P)
It is him, the bosom of nature and can sometimes be the middle of nowhere! Our path led us on to Spirits Bay. The real secret, which is controlled by any bus. Led away from civilization, a lone small dirt road to this beautiful bay, which we left did not escape us, thank God. I can really only write good about it. A lone abandoned, covered with a shell beach, a wild camping with cold showers, more or less free-running horses during sex and a slope of a sugar loaf was like it was on display. Well, and we would have had a tent, we would certainly have stayed longer there. On the way back we took only the desolate highway back, because now the water was at its Rueckmarsch and we could well do without on wet feet, only to go again on the Beach.
An almost perfect day, if we do not have to wash the car would have. Although now it seemed sometimes like a real off-roader:)
cu (seeyou) guyz your Beachboyz!