DAY 3 RUSSELL TO AHIPARA

The day started with brekky at a little cafe in Russell with Douglas before we set off across the ferry to check out the famous public toilets at Kawakawa.

These colouful public toilets were desined and built by some loony with obviously far too much time on his hands.

I thought they were crap, so we headed off to check out some nearby waterfalls, just outside Paihia.

We were quite surprised to find about 6 German backpackers cavorting naked in the pool. Heres a pic I took.

Hmm not sure what happened to the pic.

Actually that bit was bullshit, but heres a pic of Sammy instead.

From there we headed north checking out some pretty little towns along the way. Manganou reminded us of Strahan in tassie....just without the japanese toolists.

It was then up the road to Cape Reinga, New Zealands most northern point. Its also not far from home.

The cape is where the Tasman sea meets the Sth pacific and while it was quite calm today, apparently it can dish up some of the biggest waves in the world. I'm not sure if thats bullshit or not, but it sounded good eh bro?

We celebrated our getting to the cape by demolishig a pack or Oreo's and a bottle of coke then began our 30klm walk back to the car park before the sugar rush wore off. Actually thats bullshit, it's only about a kilometere, but it felt like 30.

After recovering from the uphill slog we began our journey south making a diversion to 90 mile beach.

Managed to make it onto the beach without crashing, but came close a couple of times, much to Sam's amusement.

We ended up in Ahipara, we we have checked into the backpackers and had an awesome meal at a nearby resturant, with an awesome veiw. We are both exhausted but having a great time.