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NZ: Northland to Auckland

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Sooooooo where did I leave off.... Ah yeah. So we did something crazy the next day, not entirely sure why but we both agreed to it...we drove all the way from Thames up to Cape Reigna in one day!That's 535km (10 km longer than my previous record of Picton to Fairlie in one day).  We hadn't planned on it, even stopping at Mangawhai to do a beautiful coastal walk (these types of walk are fast becoming my favourite as the scenery never gets boring and they're challenging but not too challenging if you get me). We saw tons of sea shells, climbed over loads of rock beds, squidged around in the sand, got rained on for literally 5 seconds as the rain cloud passed above us, and then double backed along the cliff top to see the same view but from up high.  It was lovely! We got to NZ's northen most campsite, Taputoputo, at 9pm ish in the pitch dark, set up the tent, then realised we had set it up in the day picnic area and not the campground (this is be

NZ: The Coromandel

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Oh my goodness I am so far behind on the blog it makes my brain hurt to think about catching up.... Here goes! So I ended last time with packing up the tent at Dickies Gorge.  We had to be in Thames for 6pm, so we decided to stay in the area we were in as Thames wasn't too far away.  Anja booked onto a goldmining tour, and I went for a walk in Waihi - except I couldn't find the right track and ended up walking through bushes on an animal track before finally admitting defeat, heading back to the car and taking the car for a badly needed car wash.  On the way to Thames, we stopped at Karangahake Gorge and did a little walk along old goldmining railway tracks. We had arranged to stay at Jayne and Sam's, a lovely couple I had met in the Trading Post (the shop I worked at in Glenorchy).  When they heard I was English we got talking, and they offered us a room to stay in when we got to the Coromandel, which was very lovely of them! We were an hour early,