5th Jan and today we are visiting Visiting Cape Reinga & 90 Mile Beach. This meant we were up before 6am to make sure we were ready for the coach to pick us up at 7am.
Off to Cape Reinga and 90-mile beach today. First stop en route was Kauri forest with huge trees in them and a boardwalk weaving between. The guide told us the walkway was built specially for the queen for a visit a while back. She arrived, stood at the entrance, said “how nice” and got back in her limo. She didn’t even walk on it!!
I (Richard) was feeling sick on the journey so far. So it was of no comfort when we got back in the coach and the driver said the road out of the woods was a bit twisty. Sick bags are available. Luckily I was ok.
Visiting Cape Reinga & 90 Mile Beach – Cape Reinga
We then stopped at a little rest stop for a drink. Before heading up to Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of NZ, 213km, 2hr 45mins from our hotel. It was worth the drive with stunning scenery.
We left there at 1.45 and headed to the sand dunes, where we all had a go at boogie boarding down them. Good fun.
Then the driver navigated the stream, and bombed along the beach in the coach, at 100km an hour!! We stayed on the beach for about an hour, traveling south before joining the roads again, and taking us back to the hotels.
Quick showers, bottle of champers, then off to a little beachside restaurant called Swiss cafe and Grill, with a great location we chose to sit on one of the outside tables under the gazebo. My meal (Suzanne) was one of the best so far and that was due to the most amazing New Zealand lip green mussels cooked in a coconut mild chilli with lime sauce.
These were the best mussels I have ever tried. Followed by lamb cutlets, not quite as good as my starter but very tasty. Poor Rich for the 2nd night in a row had to have bread for a starter! As they only seem to do this or seafood.
I’m trying to persuade my husband that if he tried it he would like it but he’s not having any of it!…….. Then back to our motel to get ready to head off on our journey back to Auckland tomorrow.
