Auckland to Paihia Bay of Islands

Another coach day today to our furthest north destination Paihia. En route we stopped at Parry Kauri Park to look at the many different trees and some interesting artefacts, then we went to the Kauri tree museum. The Kauri tree has declined massively in the last 150 years here and the museum was set up to honour the industry it created as well as help to recover the numbers of trees. Heavily used in the 1900’s for housing, furniture and many other uses, the museum holds a huge piece of a tree which was truck by lightning, fascinating place.
We then continued to Paihia in the bay of islands, a beautiful beach resort, the sun shone it was a balmy 26 degrees and we took a stroll before joining our fellow travellers for dinner.Read more