This night it was heavily raining and the noise woke us up quite often. So we wanted to have a relaxing day on the couch as the morning was still rainy. In the end we managed to get up and wanted to drive to the most northern point of New Zealand (Cape Reinga). But that would have been ~350 km one way , forget it. We already have ~2300 km on our Mazda’s odometer. And driving here is different than in Austria, quite curvy and a lot of ups and downs.
So we decided to go to the Bay of islands, on the pacific side of the Northlands. Weather got better during daytime, so we’re lucky again.
Whangarei Falls close to us, lots of water due to last night’s rainfall
