Another overcast day, as expected though, although it never actually rained as had been forecast. Although it's still warm I would prefer blue skies and being a bit cooler than these dreary grey skies.
Started the morning with a quick visit to a loal art gallery, nothing really got our attention though. Then a stop off to check out Whangarei falls, another 20+ metre waterfall situated pretty much in the town center itself. Then headed out along the Tutkaka coastline, millionaires play area here. The coastline is littered with flash steel and glass houses sitting on top of hills overlooking the wonderful coastline, with mega yachts moored up in the bays or harbour. That said anything similar in the UK would be significantly more but I guess it's all relative really, here the cost of living is much lower.
Stopped at an art gallery / cafe for lunch and a mooch around and came away with some nice modern ceramics to hang on the wall. Will be fun getting all this stuff we've bought back on the plane, fortunately it's neither bulky or heavy so should be able to go in the cabin.
Finished the afternoon with a walk through one of the local forests to get some fresh air and exercise and have spent the evening chatting with our hosts, eating and generally sorting stuff out for the trip home tomorrow! It's not all over yet though, we're not flying until very late Monday evening so that gives us all day to explore. We'll be heading across to the west coast of the Northland and checking out the Kauri forests (some measuring 45 feet in circumference!), running down the west coast through the Maori museum and then on down to the airport.
It's likely this will be the last entry 'till we get home... Yes, we've both enjoyed it as much as last time and everything once again came up to our expectations...Photo: Hatea River, Whangarei, NZ (Joe)
Started the morning with a quick visit to a loal art gallery, nothing really got our attention though. Then a stop off to check out Whangarei falls, another 20+ metre waterfall situated pretty much in the town center itself. Then headed out along the Tutkaka coastline, millionaires play area here. The coastline is littered with flash steel and glass houses sitting on top of hills overlooking the wonderful coastline, with mega yachts moored up in the bays or harbour. That said anything similar in the UK would be significantly more but I guess it's all relative really, here the cost of living is much lower.
Stopped at an art gallery / cafe for lunch and a mooch around and came away with some nice modern ceramics to hang on the wall. Will be fun getting all this stuff we've bought back on the plane, fortunately it's neither bulky or heavy so should be able to go in the cabin.
Finished the afternoon with a walk through one of the local forests to get some fresh air and exercise and have spent the evening chatting with our hosts, eating and generally sorting stuff out for the trip home tomorrow! It's not all over yet though, we're not flying until very late Monday evening so that gives us all day to explore. We'll be heading across to the west coast of the Northland and checking out the Kauri forests (some measuring 45 feet in circumference!), running down the west coast through the Maori museum and then on down to the airport.
It's likely this will be the last entry 'till we get home... Yes, we've both enjoyed it as much as last time and everything once again came up to our expectations...Photo: Hatea River, Whangarei, NZ (Joe)
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