My partner and I joined the Fitbit craze a few months ago and have been trying to get in our 10,000 steps a day. And since we’ve gotten a bit bored with walking through the streets of the Auckland CBD, we’ve been looking for walking trails near town. Last weekend we tried the Mt. Auckland…
East Cape is the easternmost point of the North Island.The East Cape Lighthouse was put up on Otiki Hill in 1922 – it was fully automated in 1985 and is controlled from the maritime headquarters in Wellington now. Getting there is an adventure by itself — I’ll blog about the drive around the cape another…
Over the Christmas break, we set out on a tiki tour and headed North of Auckland. Our plan was to put the kayak in the water for the first time in 2017 and paddle around the Kai Iwi lakes. But plans changed – between the crowds and the wind at Kai Iwi, we instead consulted…
We were driving through Taranaki yesterday and looking for a place to stop and stretch our legs – my partner suggested a place called the Three Sisters. Robert had been there before but it was many years ago so we decided to check it out. The Three Sisters is a rock formation on the beach…
We decided to make a road trip this weekend and head up to Cape Reinga, the Northern-most tip of New Zealand — it’s about a six hour drive from Auckland so I hadn’t made it up that far before. I’ll post more about the cape in a few days but we opted to take a longer…
I’ve mentioned before that pretty much every road in New Zealand takes you through countryside with beautiful serene pastures full of grazing cows and sheep. Usually you just drive past them, but not today.