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Up north – visiting the kiwi

Posted by admin On August - 16 - 2006

The fixing of my photo camera takes about a week. So I decided to travel up north again to Whangarei to see the waterfalls. After I will go to Tutukaka for diving the ‘Poor Knights Islands’. Then I wanted to go to Pahia at the Bay of Islands. From there to Cape Reinga the northern point of New Zealand. Because I had no car I booked the ‘Stray Bus’. The driver was nice and funny and on the first day we stopped at a native forest with a 800 years old Kauri. Look at the pictures how small I am compared to this anciant giant…
Then we stopped at the ‘Native Bird Recovery Center’ of Robert and his wife. They take care since ages of the native birds. If you wanna touch a real kiwi you have only here the chance. I touched the cute ‘Sparky’. He is one-legged, so he can’t live in the wild again. Unfortunately he was trapped once. But here he found a new home. There is also the funny talking tui ‘Woof woof’ and a kissing Indian miner bird called ‘Morris’.
In the afternoon I checked in at the ‘Whangarei Falls Backpackers’. But this was a bad choice. The couple who owns this place was very grumpy. My room was ice cold at night and when I turned on the heater the fire alarm immediately started. Had a really bad night. But at least the Whangarei falls are beautiful…

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Piha and Karekare beach

Posted by admin On April - 6 - 2006

This Thursday the weather was perfect for a trip to Karekare and Piha beach. To drive there from Auckland you will need 1 1/2h. That’s not this far and the way goes through the small roads in the bush. Wonderful. First we stopped at a giant waterfall on the way to Karekare beach. As I said once the sand of the beaches of the western coast is black due its volcanic heritage. On the opposite on the eastern coast the sand is white. Karekare was wonderful, wild and almost empty…The waves this time not this high. No wonder that the producers of ‘The Piano’ choose this beach as scenery for some of the magnificent shots.

After visiting Karekare we visited the famous Piha beach. They say it’s the most dangerous beach on earth, every year many people die in an accident because they are too reckless. There are big slipstreams. In the middle of Piha beach is a giant rock called lion rock because it looks like a laying lion.

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Huka Falls

Posted by admin On March - 7 - 2006

Think today was not our day. Almost the whole night I can´t got no sleep. The sky was so dark and it rained sporadic. We tried to go to the Kiwi Encounter today. The Kiwi Encounter is a working hatchery and nursery. It was difficult to find the right way the map was not exact. After asking some people in a souvenir store we finally arrived. But they only told us that we have to wait until the next guided tour. And the tour is about 1 hour later. We actually arrived 5min too late to join the tour. But there was no hint and no time on there official handout. They is not written that only once an hour you can do a guided tour. So we decide to drive to the Huka Falls an other attraction of the area. The Huka Falls are very impressing, the river is a very powerful one. But more impressing is the wonderful color – it is turquoise.

Huka Falls

At the same area you will find another smoking place – The Craters of the Moon. Not as spectacular as the Wai-O-Tapu but therefore for free…

Craters of the Moon

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