Wellsford
24 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ 🌧 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 upLeggi altro
Dargaville
24 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ 🌧 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 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ 🌧 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 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Amazing views
Opononi
24 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Lunch on the seashore. Raw fish in coconut cream - delicious.
Check out the parking sign.
The dolphin is for Tess.
Piahia
24 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 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 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 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! 270Leggi altro
Waipu Beach
26 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 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 highwayLeggi altro
Allan’s flat
26 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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 punctureLeggi altro
Auckland motorcycle hire.
26 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ☁️ 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 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 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 sizzlingLeggi altro
Auckland morning #3
27 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ ⛅ 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 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ 🌧 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 novembre 2022, Nuova Zelanda ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
And so we come close to the end of our adventure
ViaggiatoreThanks Neil for keeping us up to date on your ride. Lovely photo at the end there on the bike....assume it's you. Cheers.
Melbourne airport
27 novembre 2022, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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 allLeggi altro
Viaggiatoreglad everyone was ok