A visit from the Easter Bunny!
Easter morning rainbow.
Afternoon family walk along the coast.
Pretty trail.
Of course, easter dinner and carrot cake for dessert.
Easter at Opanake Holiday Park
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Mount Taranaki
Mount Taranaki is a beautiful volcano on the Central West shore of the North Island. The boys surfed this very rocky break in the shadow of the volcano. Look closely and you can see all of the rock “boils” in this video.
Rocky surf break.
Taranaki
The Three Sisters and the Elephant
We pulled over to stretch our legs and just happened to be at these large rock formations along the North Taranaki Coast.
Do you see the Elephant?
Two of the sisters.
Lots of caves.
One of the sisters.
The brother.
Best sunset and moonrise ever!!!!!
While the boys were still out surfing Raglan, Aimee and I walked up on the rocks to take some photos of the sunset. Rarely do you get to see a complete sphere setting over the horizon. I snapped a few photos and turned around to find a full moon rising in the eastern sky. We sat there awe struck and then started video taping.
Raglan
We spent a few days at Raglan. It never got that good, but we had a lot of fun.
Heading out.
Willie on a wave.
Wylie on a nice long left.
Looking down on Raglan.
Family surf at Ngarunui beach break near Raglan.
One of our favorite tourist attractions
Hobbiton
Any one who has read or watched The Hobbit should not miss this tourist attraction. Aimee loved this place so much, she tried to miss the bus back so she could stay in Hobbiton…forever.
Bilbo Baggins Hobbit hole
At the green dragon pub.
Aimee in Hobbit Heaven
A few tourist attractions
Hundertwasser Toilets
One of the things I loved about New Zealand were all of the public toilets. Unlike the US, there are public bathrooms every where and they are clean and sometimes quite stylish. Of course, the most famous is the Hundertwasser Toilets – designed by internationally renowned artist, ecologist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser
More cool public bathrooms
Glow Worm Caves
I remember watching the The Land Before Time, an animated movie about dinosaurs when the kids were little. There were these caves lit up with glow worms. I never knew they really existed. We couldn’t pass it up. Unfortunately they do not allow any photographing in the caves, but this picture is very similar to what we saw.
Tauranga Bay
After sand surfing we headed to Tauranga Bay, on the east coast. This was one of my favorite little campsites.
Te Paki Sand Dunes
When the waves weren’t good, we tried our hand at surfing the sand.
It was a long hard paddle out,
but there was no one in the line up.
The surfing wasn’t so great,
but the boogie boarding rocked!
Cape Reinga
Cape Reinga
Cape Reinga is the northern most tip of the Aupouri Peninsula, North Island, where the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea meet. We raced to get there before the sun set. As you can see, we made it and it was spectacular!
