Cape Reinga

Today Lyall and I went on the 90 mile beach trip - lots of lovely scenery again up to the beach. Stopped at the Ancient Kauri Kingdom where they carve things out of the huge trees that have been buried in the peat bog. The trees are really huge - in fact, they have carved a staircase out of one trunk! The letters you see below are little jewelry boxes - each letter is $230 (except for the letter "I" which is $130) not cheap but then it is "50,000 years old" !!!!!

Below is where we stopped to have lunch - it was very cold and very very windy - Lyall braved the elements!

Some brave people went sand tobogonning

Lots and lots of beach - we drove along the beach for 61km and there was still further to go before we turned for home.

The above photo shows a pretty amazing site but the salt spray off the water was pretty heavy. Still impressive though. A good day all in all - having Thai for dinner tonight. Jan and Martyn had a relaxing day at 'home'.