We're in pain!!! Today we've had a very strenuous day, well for us we have. We started off the day by driving to a small town called waikino, were we hired a couple of bikes and set off for the karangahake gorge, basically a walk through the forest along the gorge which was really nice. We ended up returning the bikes about 4hrs later as we had to chain up the bikes and divert on walks to look outs and waterfalls etc. After that we drove to the coast furth...

After a amazing time in the bay of islands we left yesterday morning heading south for a small town called waihi which is famous for its gold mining. So once we arrived after our long drive and checking into our new place which I must say is a nice little place we went to have a look at the gold mine, it was huge and right in the centre of waihi. We found out that it started off as a small hill on top of the flat ground and you will see from the photos how deep...

Today we got a boat over to Russell which is a really old part of the bay of islands with some historic buildings dating back to the early 1900s, we walked up to the view point it was so steep, Dave was ok but my legs started to cramp up lol , was good views when we got to the top so it was worth my legs hurting. we met a couple at the top that was from Napier a place further south and invited us when we go there to give them a call and go round theirs for BBQ s...

Today we headed up to 90 mile beach , on the way we stopped off to waipoua forest for a hike where we see tane mahuta (Lord of the forest) basically that huge tree!!! The beach was massive and we got to rip the car on it and I was like a big kid lol Luckily the weather was nice today so we got to see how nice the country really is. All in all we done about six hours driving again. Long!! Hopefully the weather stays the same tomorrow and we will get to do ...

Arrived in Auckland yesterday finally after our killer of a journey, once leaving the airport after dodging customs as I was smuggling too much tobacco we picked up our little car and made our way to the first hostel which I must say wasn't a great start as it was a bit of a s*** hole!!! On the upside it was in a great location on a strip of funky bars and restaurants where we immediately got involved and met a some decent locals. By about 7 we were well on ou...