Wednesday 28 February 2018

Day 9

We woke up in Hot Water Beach at 8.30am to get a shovel and cruised down to the beach to find some hot water. We were the fist ones at the beach so we got a good spot. So we ended up staying at the beach for two hours before giving our hot pool up to some other travelers. It actually got to hot at one point that should give you a good idea how hot it was. After that dad and I drove three hours to Tuaranga where we met up with Dads old Friend (fun fact: Dad went to England with him to play league) now we are at his house for the next 2 nights.
 



Tuesday 27 February 2018

Day 8

Last night Mum joined us in Auckland and stayed the night with us. Today started with meeting up with Ellie for breakfast after her first class at university. After that we took Mum to a bike shop in Mt. Eden for a few running repairs to make things a little more comfortable on her bike. Then we dropped mum off at the top of Mt Eden (fun fact if you didn't now Mt Eden is one of the old volcanoes that Auckland is built on) After we dropped Mum off Dad and I drove three hours to Hot Water Beach. But it wasn't low tide so we couldn't dig a hole to find hot water so we are going to do it in the morning. 

Monday 26 February 2018

Day 7

Today we woke up in Auckland and watched the latest Thor movie. After that we drove half an hour to a little town outside of Auckland called Silverdale, where Dad had a meeting and Zoe and I went on the luge. The luge was very fun. Zoe and I had a race and I beat Zoe twice and she only beat me once. Then we drove back to Auckland to pick up Ellie from her apartment after her first day of uni. Then we went shopping at Rebel Sports for some league boats and basketball boots. After this we got some street food and went back up to our hotel to eat it.

Sunday 25 February 2018

Day 6

We started off in Kaiwaka and then we left there to go to Wellsford for breakfast. I had french toast with banana bacon and maple syrup, it was very good. Then we went on the road to travel to Auckland. Once we started getting close to Auckland there was a pretty big traffic jam but we got through it in about 15 minutes and dropped Ellie off at her university halls. After that, while Ellie and I went down to Timezone and played some games, dad went to pick up Zoe from the airport for a Bruno Mars concert with Ellie on Tuesday. Later on we walked down to the bottom of queens street to the water front and went to eat at a place called the Crab Shack for a nice seafood meal. I had a seafood chowder and dad got a king crab leg on top of his steak. Then we walked back up to our hotel which is called the Sky City hotel, underneath the Sky Tower. 

Saturday 24 February 2018

A Big Day

A Big Day

I woke up at 4am this morning to travel from Pukenui to Cape Reinga for the start of Mums bike tour. After mum had taken off on her bike, we walked down to the lighthouse and took lots of photos.

After this we drove down to Ninety mile beach. While driving along the beach we saw lots of sand dunes. Half way down the beach we stopped so that I could bodyboard down the sand dunes. I had to climb all the way up a big sand dune before running and jumping on the body board and sliding all the way down.

Next we went to Mangonui to have a quick look around. There was a motorcycle meetup going on here so there was motorcycles parked all around the streets.

Afterwards we drove around the bay to Hihi, which is where Dad lived until he was 12. He told us lots of stories about what he did when he was growing up here.

We then drove another two hours to Waipoua Forest where we went for a walk to see the Lord of the forest, Tane Mahuta, the giant Kauri tree. It caught me by surprise how big he was! Before we went in to see Tane Mahuta we had to clean the bottom of our shoes because there is a disease killing Kauri trees and we would not like for people in the future to not be able to see the great tree.


Next we traveled an hour and a half
to spend the night at a
motel in Kaiwaka.

























Friday 23 February 2018

Day 4



Today we started off with brunch at a cafe in Whangarei, I had a eggs on toast with heaps off extras it ended up very big but it was still good. And after the cafe we traveled three hour to Pukenui I didn't get any sleep so it was pretty long trip. 


Thursday 22 February 2018

Third Day Of My Trip

On the third day of my trip we started in Cambridge. Yesterday we drove to Cambridge and we didn't get time to see the Velodrome so we went there this morning and watched some people training. Did you now that there is only two Velodrome's in NZ, Invercargill and Cambridge and I have now been to both of them. Half way through our three hour trip we went through the traffic in Auckland. We ended up in Whangarei.

Wednesday 21 February 2018

Second Day Of My Trip


On the second day of my trip we drove five hours to Cambridge. Half way through the drive we went pass an Army base in Waiouru. After Waiouru we went through the training plains were we went past three tanks and one jeep.

Tuesday 20 February 2018

First Day Off My Trip


On the first day off my trip we drove four to five hours to get to Picton. Once we got to Picton we walked around an aquarium before we got on the ferry to Wellington.