A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Papamoa beach, New Zealand by TravelPod blogger Mills01480 titled “The far North” Mills01480′s travel blog entry: “The area to the North of Auckland looks small and thin on the map, but, we still did 1000 klms just getting around the Northlands area. When we left Auckland, the winds started to blow and got up to 120 klms an hour, Jucy Lucy (the van) didn’t take kindly to this & was rocking & rolling all over the place. After going over the Auckland bridge we heard on the radio that they thought it was unsafe & should be shut !! great we thought….but being NZ, they decided to leave it open anyway and make it an attraction. The coast road is beautiful, every camp site had amazing views…we went through a Kauri tree forest where the oldest was seeded at the time of Christ if you are a believer (that is approx 2000 years ago for thickies)…The camp sites all have really good kitchen areas where people get together in the evening, we have met people from all over the World and Bedford ! We arrived at 90 mile beach at the top of NZ, it is actually 68 miles long, and why isn’t it in KLMs anyway as that is what they use here !! As it was Kims birthday, we decided to splash out on a cheap tour to Cape Reinga, the furthest Northerly point…..you go along the beach in a coach at 70 mph trying to avoid the tide blocking the beach…it is actually the start of highway 1 the cleanest road in NZ that gets washed twice a day by …

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"The far North" Mills01480′s photos around Papamoa beach, New Zealand