After Paihia and Russell, we continued to head north. We saw some beautiful beaches and some other interesting scenery.
Both NZ and OZ have some of the most beautiful beaches we have ever seen! This is called 90 mile beach, but is actually 90 km beach...still very long and wide. People drive on it. It is on the top coast of New Zealand.
We went through kauri forests and stopped at a place called The Kauri Kingdom. Outside there were lots of old stumps and ancient logs that were found in various swamp lands. This is one that they had inside the store and they'd carved a stairwell in the middle of it and this staircase led to the second floor of the store.
As I descend the stairs, it gives you some idea of the size of this log. It was a very interesting store and collection.
We took this little car ferry on the way to Opononi on the east coast.
We've never seen a sign like this one and thought it was quite humorous! As always, we have to trudge around every marina and wharf...truth be known, I like it too!
We've, strangely enough, only seen two of these signs so far. The first one we missed taking a photo, cause we thought we'd see plenty of them. When we finally saw this one, just a couple of days ago, we'd almost given up hope!
Speaking of funny signs, we found this one in a pub and couldn't agree more with the sentiment!
These are some of the town names in New Zealand...definitely Maori influence here.
Try to wrap your tongue around these!
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