Road Trip to Bay of Islands

Hi everyone, the last two days I went on a two day trip to the Bay of Islands with my friends Taka and Chaiki. On our way we stopped by at Whangarei for lunch and spent some time at the Northland Table Tennis Stadium. Afterwards we headed towards further north towards the Bay of Islands. It took us almost another two hours to get there.

When we finally reached our destination we checked into our motel. Our Motel was really close to the beach around two minutes to walk. After we unpacked our bags we headed out to enjoy the good weather. We decided to hire a kayak. It was around $15 per person. It was very fun on the kayak paddling around. Soon we got very tired from paddling so hard so we decided to come back to the shore.

We found out that was an BBQ that we could use at the motel. So we took advantage of the facility and decided to do some BBQ for dinner. We had a variety of things these include: pork ribs, sausages, steak, and chicken. Funny enough the chicken took a long time to cook. So I gave up cooking it on the BBQ and decided to put in the oven. The BBQ was a good way to end the first day.

The next day we left the motel at 10am and headed towards Ninety mile beach and Cape Reinga. During our trip we saw so many different wonderful natural landscapes.

When we finally got to Ninety mile beach all we could see was an endless stretch of beach. We spent sometimes at the beach and took some photos together to keep these wonderful memories. Later on we started to head towards Cape Reinga. This journey took around two hours. For this part of the journey we went off road and drove on the beach until we reached to the famous sand dunes where we did some sand surfing. It was great, we got sand everywhere including our eyes, ears and inside of our pants.

In the afternoon we started to head back to Auckland. It was a long journey as it took us around seven hours. When we got back home we were very tired, but the awsome time we had was definately worth it.

Aaron