Showing posts with label 90-Mile Beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 90-Mile Beach. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2009

90-Mile Beach and the end of the world - Part II

Finally.  Here's our video.  Towards the end there's a very small peek of us exiting 90-mile beach by (the only exit) Te Paki Stream (which is more like a river in some parts).  There is still at least one more instalment of our 90-mile beach vacation.



The wild horses were an unexpected highlight!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Trip to 90-mile beach and the end of the world - Part I

We loaded up the car with the bare necessities (yes, that's a tiny potty) and hit the road to the Winterless North.
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It was ~6hr drive up to Ahipara, which is the jumping-off point to the southern tip of 90-mile beach.  The girls were perfect the whole drive.  Oh, there were some incidents - but they were not the babies fault.  We overfed Claire ~ 1 gallon of milk which she regurgitated (completely regurgitated) for us.  That required a pit stop.  We got a great deal on a huge beach house with a beautiful veiw.  Here's a shot of sunrise.  It turns out that we were about 1km from a world-famous surf break, Shipwreck Bay!  It's a loooong left which my mate Jimmy Kooksley would love.  Si o no, Jimmy?
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There were some fun walks along the beach...
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and digging in the sand...
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and sweet family time...
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