We finally got to see Penguins! but it was at the aquarium, but still cool! They were way bigger than we expected, they even had one named Fat Boy.
all those little white dots are sheep!
So we FINALLY got out of Auckland and rented a car to head up north. We stopped and stayed in Paihia for a few nights. Its a quaint little beachy town a little like Southport actually. It was nice, we took a speedboat ride to a cave and through a hole in one of the islands in the Bay of Islands. We also got to do some really pretty hikes through forests that really looked like something out of a Dr. Seuss story. A few days later we got to go horseback riding to a volcano called Mt. Te Puke. The ride was awesome, Laura had a little Paint Pony and I got to ride this HUGE Clydesdale that was just not interested in me at all and did whatever she wanted.
Paihia
View of the Tasman Sea
After we visited Cape Reinga lighthouse we headed back out and on our way we stopped at a place called Te Paki and got Boogey Boards and went sandboarding. This has easily been the best and most thrilling thing we've done. The dunes were absolutely enormous and you feel like you are in the desert cause all you can see is just rolling sand dunes everywhere. We were just throwing ourselves down these huge mountain of dunes and you can't imagine how fast you get going and how steep it is.
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