Cape Reinga and the Bay of Islands

Jenn and Buffy at Bethells Beach
Jim with our rental sorting out the route
Buffy outside the kauri museum
Ahhh New Zealand roads
Jenn and Jim in the Waipoua Kauri forest with the biggest kauri tree in the World, Tane Mahuta
Tane Mahuta

Small town in an inlet off the tasman sea
New Zealand classic road sign
90 Mile beach, it's actually only 64 miles long
Jenn and Buffy on 90 Mile Beach
Jim and Jenn on the beach
So long!
Jim puting his feet into the Tasman Sea
Buffy trying the shellfish, right off of 90 Mile Beach
Island with a hole in the centre, off of 90 Mile Beach, not to be confused with the hole in the rock in Paihia
Driving up the quick sand stream, It's one of only 3 ways on and off the beach
Buffy and Jim heading off to sand board

Heading up the giant sand dunes, for sand boarding!
Jim was so quick Jenn couldn't catch him on camera, He is behind the weeds
Jim going for it a second time
At the bottom
Jim and Buffy coming back from sand boarding

Looking out from Cape Reinga
Cape Reinga Lighthouse in the distance

The Tasman and the Pacific Ocean Colliding
Jenn and Buffy at the lighthouse
Jenn at Cape Reinga, the most northernly part of New Zealand
Jenn and Jim at the Cape
Jenn and Buffy at the Cape
View from the Lighthouse!
Lunch break
View from were we had lunch
Dock below restaurant
This is where they weigh and measure the Sharks and Marlin that are caught here
Our bus after the 90 mile beach
Puketi Kauri Forest
Inside Christ Church

Notice the musket holes


At the top of flagstaff hill, the highest point in the bay of islands, what a climb
Looking down to the bays
The flagstaff
Looking down to Russell

Police Station in Russell
Paihia to Russell ferry
Looking ahead to Paihia
Jim on the beach at Waiwera
Waiwera
Huge rock out from Waiwera