After a 6+ hour sailing tour through the Bay of Islands on the East coast, we drove across to the West coast to spend some time on Baylys Beach. On the way, we stopped in the Waipoua National Forest to see one of the oldest living Kauri trees, which used to dominate much of the Northern New Zealand landscape. For size perspective, you can see Angie in a black shirt in the lower right corner. We could only fit into the camera frame the lower portion of this tree that has seen 2,000 years, all but the last 700 years or so sans humans. The sap from these gigantic trees fell to the ground and provided for the gum export industry for decades in the 1800s.
We are learning a lot of the history, but not enough about the present variations in such things as sand temperature on bare feet.
So we ended the day by coming into a small town of Baylys Beach. What’s unique about this beach is the road just turns into the beach and then at low tide people drive as far as they want down the coast, over 90 miles. So they drive a while, camp, hang out on a private stretch of beautiful ocean beach, and then move on. There are maybe just one or two other access points along the way.
Yet given our 2-wheel drive car, the approaching high tide, and our spinning wheels, we got nervous about .05 miles into it and drove the car back to the main road. But it’s a good walk too...
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