Kristopher's New Zealand Trip

So the last couple days we spent driving up to Cape Reinga from Paihia and back to Auckland. We drove for a couple of kilometers down the 90 mile beach. That was pretty cool. We even saw a dead seal or something. When we got to Cape Reinga it was amazing. Where the Pacific Ocean met the Tasman Sea was incredable. From the cliff that we were on you could see the white water in the ocean and all the crazyness. After spending a night in the campground up there and getting hung up on a hill we went back down. On our way down instead of sticking to the 1 we drove down the 12. Man did we win with that one. We got to see the biggest Kuari tree on earth. It was 50 meters tall and had a first of 13 meters. Then we saw the widest and it had a girth of 17 meters. It was unbelievable. After we got out of the forest we stopped at a Kuari gift shop. The people there were selling Kuari gum, (which is amber from a Kauri tree) They had pieces there that were very cloudy and over the next 10-15 years would clear up as they dried, because they had been buried for the last 40-50 thousand years. It was pretty cool so I bought a massive hunk of it for 95 dollars. I will put a picture of it up soon. After that we drove to the campground we were staying at for the night. We had a nice evening walk in the forest hoping to see a kiwi because it was a kiwi reserve. We didn't see any but it was still a really nice walk. After some hot showers (so refreashing, cold showers suck) we hit the sack. Today we gunned it down to Auckland and we will keep going until we get out of Auckland and find a place to camp.