To Auckland and Beyond!

I´ve been pretty lazy really when it comes to both taking photos, and spending time in front of a computer to bother adding to this blog. Luckily I have been ill for 3 days, which has given me the perfect opportunity to not do anything for a change, hide from the sunshine, and sit at a computer.

However by this point I´m not feeling very inspired when it comes to writing stories of our adventures.........which has never been my strong point anyway.

Needless to say we´re having a great time, and after just getting back from 10 days in Australia (I didn´t even take my camera!), we are back in Hokitika, and thinking once again about whether it´s time to look for some kind of income again, or just opt out all together!

Here are some shots from our trip to the wonderfully weird North Island of NZ. As I mentioned I´ve been lazy as hell with my camera, and havn´t taken photos of any kayaking, mountain biking, surfing or other fun stuff!

So here are a few landscape shots from the past couple of months!


Most things on the North Island seem to steam and bubble in some way. The earths crust here is built to the usual dodgy Kiwi building standards, so all the heat from the centre of the earth keeps escaping!



Even the mountains spit out smoke! Red Crater on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing.

Mt. Ngauruhoe.....another active Volcano!

Hillevi on part of our long 5 day trek done in 3 days with the Volcano Mt. Ruapehu in the background.

Sunset over Mt. Raupehu

The Emerald lakes.

After catching up with friends in Taupo and Rotorua for 2 weeks, we hit the road ´to Auckland and beyond!`. Heading up to the far Northern tip of the North Island we came to 90 Mile Beach. A stretch of about 100km of official NZ Highway (only at low tide!) with a speed limit of 100km/h.

This led to about 2 days of entertainment and donuts blasting up and down the sand.

Romantic sunset shot!

Hillevi washes up after breakfast on the highway.

To get to and from the beach the ´Highway` follows (actually is in the middle of) a river for about 10km. Once again the speed limit is 100km/h.

We then headed back down south to Hokitika, working our way along the coast line!