Bay of Islands

OH... my assignments are all done! YEAHHHH... i'm in a good mood.

She sells seashells... on a different sea shore.

Went to Bay of Islands over last weekend. It was this beach area and the drive there from Auckland was quite pretty, to me. The others dont seem very impressed. I thought it looks better than way to Rotorua/Bay of Plenty.

First day as usual was all about driving and more driving, and some grocery shopping. Stopped by a bee farm for get some manuka honey.. supposed to be a NZ thing.

eeee.. alot of bees. A.k.a. Fenella Lim's best friend.

and then we saw this car outside the bee place and it has 3 dogs in there! 2 of them are super noisy... The brown brown one is a Gigi! (Alvin other dog's name) Quite pretty! I like it the best amongst the 3 dogs. So dont always say I am biased to BB... 2nd morning we went on the 90 mile beach tour. well the 90 mile beach is a beach that is... ermmmm... 60+ mile long. Haha.. The driver/guide did try to explain y it is called 90 mile beach despite being only 60+ miles but i cant really remember.

The coach drive.

Cape Reinga.

The northern most tip of nz!

Dark clouds looming....

The girls!

And presenting to u.. the 90 mile beach

The bus travelled on the sand

The 2 girls dont like each other. Isnt it apparent? The driver said it is very dangerous to drive on the beach if u are inexperienced because your car can either get stuck in the sand or one big wave comes and topple the car. So if that ever happens, dont try to run to the other end of the beach to get help because it wouldnt help. You should just climb up a safe place, sit back and watch your car get taken away by the sea. If u run away, the car will still be taken and you dont get to see it!

Also heard that many many cars and coaches get taken away by the sea. There was one recently but the driver said he could not tell us which company it was.. But.. he asked if we saw a bright new yellow coach... and think about y they'll need a bright new yellow coach..

Hmmmm i'm not suggesting anything but this looks like a......

To end the tour, we went to this Kauri tree workshop.. Kauri trees are huge huge trees and those in the workshops are dug out from some swampy areas and have lived for as long as 30 000 yrs!

Gollum carved out of the Kauri tree. Dont like! who will buy this freaky looking thing and put it at home.
Its huge!

Assembling at the assembly point.

---- end of 2nd day---