After a couple of days lazing around at my mother’s place in the countryside just out of Hamilton, Christina and I decided to use the remaining week before Christmas to explore some more of New Zealand. We chose to visit Northland, the prosaically-named long finger of land that stretches north of Auckland. I hadn’t been up there since I was a kid, and never further north than the Bay of Islands. We decided to go all the way to Cape Reinga, the almost-northernmost point of New Zealand and, according to Maori folklore, the jumping-off point for spirits on their way to the Underworld. It’s also the best place to see watch two great bodies of water merge: the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Heading for Cape Reinga!
Not many people live in the Far North, the region of Northland north of Kaitaia. It’s a starkly beautiful place of endless rolling green hills and long, deserted beaches. We wanted to walk from Spirits Bay on the eastern coast via Cape Reinga to Ninety Mile Beach on the western coast. We were having a brilliant time until 2 pm on the second day, when we decided to go for a swim at Tapotupotu Bay.
Climbing up from Spirits Bay, on the way to Cape Reinga. We started at the far end of the beach
Heading for Cape Reinga!
Not many people live in the Far North, the region of Northland north of Kaitaia. It’s a starkly beautiful place of endless rolling green hills and long, deserted beaches. We wanted to walk from Spirits Bay on the eastern coast via Cape Reinga to Ninety Mile Beach on the western coast. We were having a brilliant time until 2 pm on the second day, when we decided to go for a swim at Tapotupotu Bay.
Climbing up from Spirits Bay, on the way to Cape Reinga. We started at the far end of the beach
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