2015-01-05
We spent the first of two nights in Taipa on the shore of Doubtless Bay. Our resort room was comfortable, if meager, by the standards of resorts on the Gulf of Mexico. Taipa is a tiny town that rolls up the streets at about 5 pm.
For our full day in Taipa, we took a day trip to the northern most point of New Zealand, Cape Reinga. The drive was typical New Zealand zig-zag with three or four one-way bridges, but the views at the Cape were stunning. We talked the boys into a 4km hike down to the most incredible beach any of us had seen. The pictures can't do it justice. Another fascinating vista of the cape is the water churning where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean. It's a constant sloshing a kilometer or two offshore.
Laura and I were extremely pleased with the boys' hiking performance. It was a reasonably tough climb back to the car from the beach and they did a great job. Our reward was pizza in the resort restaurant, the under-staffed resort restaurant. Their pizza and our salad were both good, but took about 90 min to emerge from the kitchen. Oofta. Steven's blood sugar and mood plummeted as we waited.
Here are a bunch of pictures from the day.
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| Looking southwest from Cape Reinga |
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| Cape Reinga lighthouse in the background |
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| Churning water over Laura's shoulder |
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| On the trail to the beach |
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| The beach was about 500m wide at this point |
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| Very steep. No handrails. |
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| Still operational |
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| Tasman fighting the Pacific |
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| Steven snuck into this pano shot |
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