For those who are interested, we are alive and well. No worries there. In the last week we explored Northland (it's exactly where it sounds like), and now we've gone back through Auckland and are on to exploring Coromandel, which is a fairly large peninsula across the bay from Auckland to the East.
Much of northland was the same. All very beautiful, with rolling hills spattered with sheep, horses, and mostly cows. It's interesting here that they aren't always separated into their own fields. I've seen herds of cows and sheep, and herds of cows and horses. It's pretty neat. Roads wind through and around the farms. Every single one is windy and hilly, with more single lane bridges than I think is sane. I'm glad we have an automatic car, and I don't have to learn how to drive a manual on these roads. They are a motorcyclists dream, and both of us wish we had bikes. Or bicycles, even. These roads would be insanely fun on a bicycle!
We've been camping along the coastline, mostly of the Pacific but the Tasman Sea too. Every campground and other spot we've found to stay for the night has been beautiful, but since they're all coastline beaches, I couldn't think of anything new and exciting to write about after the last post. I think the pictures we will (eventually) post will highlight the best parts, like the beaches that consist only of varying sizes of broken seashells. They're soft on the feet, and pink, and beautiful. But rather than bore you with long, cliche poetic posts about that, we'll post pictures.
We're both itching to pick up the pace now, I think. We've been looking harder into caving adventures, hikes, and other great opportunities around the north island. Not that I don't like moseying about the coastlines, but if we continue at the pace we've been going we'll be here for longer than our visas allow (12 months), yet alone our wallets.
So, sorry there isn't much on here this week, but we're off to find new adventures, and therefore there will be more posts later.
-Carolyn and Luke
17-12-2013
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