I took a day trip to Cape Reinga which also takes you along 90 mile beach (even though it's only 64 miles long!)

90 mile beach is actually classed as a road but can only betravelled when the tide is out. The bus we were in was more of a converted 4w dive truck and just as well because there was a few cars half buried in the sandwhere people had been caught out. We pretty much just squeezed through in time as the tide was coming in fast and parts of the beach were already almost completely covered in water.

We then turned off 90 mile beach and travelled up a fresh water stream (which is also classed as a road!) towards the sand dunes which back from the beach. The dunes are absolutely massive. We were all given a dune board and headed up to the top of the dune. The sand was really flat and hard from the damp cold weather and we were told that to go fats you lift up the front of the oard and lift your feet up in the air. I was first to give it a shot, and being a bbloke you have to do it in style and at full spped so I got the front of the board up and feet right up in the air. I was tanking it down the dune and just before I got to the bottom I hit a bump which knocked me a bit then I hit another. I carshed and burned in spectacular style being thrown into the air and tumbling down the rest of the dune. I was in an absolute mess with all the wet sand but at least I got the biggest cheer of the day. Just to rub salt into the wounds the 2 girls who did it after made it all the way without falling off!

My second shot I made it past the bumps but because of the speed I was going at I kept on going and skimmed across the top of the stream and stopped right in the middle and sank. The water was only 6 inches deep at most but I was absolutely soaked!

Cape Reinga is kind of like John O'Groats claiming to be the northerly most point even though neither of them are. The Tasman Sea & Pacific Ocean both meet here and the sea sometimes gets upto 10m waves. The Cape Reinga Lighthouse sits at the tip and it does feel unusual there and it gives you that end of the world feeling.

At the cery tip of the Cape is a spiritually significant 800 year old Pohutukawa tree and the Maori believe that their souls slide down ti it's roots.

There is also a mailbox at the Cape which is the most remote post box in NZ.