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View from apartment |
Time for a break. Jax had been working lots of extra hours and got Friday off. This meant we could sneak off for a long weekend and after the recent storms we decided to head towards the sun and go North. The bay of islands is where modern NZ started with the first European settlement in Russell. We stayed in Paihia (across the water from Russell) which although is only about 5km away from Russell is a boat ride or a long drive around.
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View of Russell from ferry |
We got a great deal on wotif and stayed in a lovely seaview apartment right by the beach. We walked to Waitangi (where the treaty between the Maori's and the English was signed), had some great meals and took the ferry over to Russell.
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Police station in Russell |
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Hunternwasser's Toilets |
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Beach at Paihia |
The weather was fantastic and it was a wrench to have to go home. On the way back we stopped off at NZ's most famous toilets - (Hunternwasser's in Kawaka) and the Shakespear Regional park on the Hibiscus Coast just North of Auckland. More photos
here
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Lambs in Shakespear |