Wellsford
24. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
The lime tree cafe for morning tea.
Interesting morning- we had just started off the motorway and a young person slid off the road and over the edge - fortunately missing a couple of the guys upWeiterlesen
Dargaville
24. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
High!!!! Winds for many km’s coming into Dargaville. Flat land around really let’s the wind flow. We crossed the large river - wairoa river - very brown.
Tane Mahuta - Lord of the forest
24. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
This tree is a very large and old Kauri tree - estimated 2000 yrs. There is concern about the trees being affected by nasties so there is shoe washing on the way in and on the way out.
Hokianga harbour lookout
24. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Amazing views
Opononi
24. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Lunch on the seashore. Raw fish in coconut cream - delicious.
Check out the parking sign.
The dolphin is for Tess.
Piahia
24. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
AirBnB for 2 nights. It’s on the ‘Bay of Islands’ .. Out for dinner at “Jimmy Jacks”. We all had seafood chowder.
Flagstaff hill - Te Maiki- Russell
25. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
New Zealand’s first flag - of the united tribes was meant to fly here… however the flagstaff become a focus of Māori protest ….. see notes in the pics..
Amazing views from this site anyway! 270Weiterlesen
Waipu Beach
26. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Caught the ferry at Opua to get to the old Russell road. A lovely ride down the old Russell road… wonderful views of bays and harbours and islands and coastline. Really twisty. ….bit of highwayWeiterlesen
Allan’s flat
26. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Allan had a puncture in the rear tyre (the tyre was pretty worn in the first place!). Fortunately the house we stopped outside of was inhabited by a particularly helpful kiwi. He had a can of punctureWeiterlesen
Auckland motorcycle hire.
26. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Here we are back at the beginning. After 3013.1 km’s of terrific riding through wonderful countryside we have reached the end of the road.
Ponsonby food court.
26. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Out to dinner after car, train, taxi rides back to the Verandahs Parkside Lodge. The local food court has much Asian food - Thai, Japanese, kebabs, Malaysian, Italian etc….. I had Thai sizzlingWeiterlesen
Auckland morning #3
27. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Mostly fine, a little sun between the clouds. Heading into town to have a look around. There was a Santa parade and I caught a glimpse of a penguin marching band!
NZ Maritime museum
27. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
A very complete description of the maritime history….. the NZ timeline of the America’s Cup didn’t seem to mention Australia at all!?!
Auckland airport departure
27. November 2022 in Neuseeland ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
And so we come close to the end of our adventure
Melbourne airport
27. November 2022 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Well here we are back home again after 10 days of twisty roads, terrific scenery and great camaraderie from a shared passion. All things considered a very successful trip. Shout out to Allan for allWeiterlesen
Reisenderglad everyone was ok