Wellsford
24 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌧 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 upЧитать далее
Dargaville
24 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌧 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 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌧 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 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Amazing views
Opononi
24 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Lunch on the seashore. Raw fish in coconut cream - delicious.
Check out the parking sign.
The dolphin is for Tess.
Piahia
24 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 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 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 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! 270Читать далее
Waipu Beach
26 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 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 highwayЧитать далее
Allan’s flat
26 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 punctureЧитать далее
Auckland motorcycle hire.
26 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 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 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 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 sizzlingЧитать далее
Auckland morning #3
27 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 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 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌧 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 ноября 2022 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
And so we come close to the end of our adventure
ПутешественникThanks 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 ноября 2022 г., Австралия ⋅ ☁️ 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 allЧитать далее
Путешественникglad everyone was ok