We drove back to the Sandspit Camping, since we liked it very much the last time, and we could use the gaming room if the weather was not doing good. In fact, we played again a lot of pingpong, and saw the English Chronics of Narnia in the cinema room.
We stayed there two days, from which one of them, it bucketed down nonstop. But the next morning we were woken up by the sun rising out of the Pacific ocean and the paradise-like singing of the Tuis. We went for a walk to Mullet Point, in our 'tennis' shoes, since we thought a walk on grass should be easy. Wronnng! It was muddy as I never saw before, and our shoes were soon to be seen only brown. Happy us...
In Martins bay, we took a picture of that car on the beach. That easy you can bring your kayak to the sand, not bad eh?
Later we drive to Henk and Jeanette, they invited us to stay a couple of days at their home. It was Friday so we could spend some time together in the weekend. Their grandson Luca was also with them, he is only five years old but was really funny.
Saturday we went to the market at Matakana, really small but nice, and full of young people. Later we went for a walk to Tawaranui, again a "predator-proff" fenced peninsula, in which plenty of native fauna can live without the threat of introduced predators. The park has a 2.5 km long fence, and the two beaches are a surfers paradise, as well as having nice native bush walks. Lovely!
Later we ate some pie in a pottery cafe, and headed back home. At night we cooked a powerful tortilla de patatas to refuel.
Sunday was gonna be a clean and tidy up day, it was still sunny and we had to prepare and repack our accumulated stuff and clean the car. That took us the whole day. In the evening Henk coocked a really tasteful dinner and we played Rummykub and laughed with the stories that the couple were sharing with us. Was Fun!
Monday we drove to Piha beach, in the Waitakere Ranges. A nice surfing beach with a huge rock between both beaches, Lion's rock. A sacred Maōri place.
Plenty of the big starfish there, I went too close to take a picture, and the result was having to change my trousers, shoes and socks. The waves were massive.
The blue car in the picture is a very common car type in New Zealand. It is something between a pickup and an sports car. They call them Utes, and are, according to me, pretty ugly. Massive 5 liter V8 engines, what a waste of petrol.
On the way down we drove through the motorway, what a shock. We are not used to masses... coming back to Europe will be hard...
That was our last, out of the city experience in NZ.
Later more to come!
Cheers!
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