Today, we drive to Cape Reigna, the northern tip of the North Island. On the way, we stop for a lunch at another gorgeous looking beach and we pass more odd looking cows. One is what I would like to call a ‘sheep-cow’, with a coat like it has not so recently shorn of its wool.
As we go up and down the winding roads, we ponder how Joost must have felt having to face this route as the last part of this journey.
Views from the road include the world’s largest silica sand beach, which stands like a white lump monolith, and the Te Paki giant sand dunes, behind which runs 90 Mile Beach.
When we get to Cape Reigna and walk to the Lighthouse, the views of the surrounding bays are handsome. This is the point where Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean, although today there are no great whirlpools marking the collision. However, from the information plaques that line the walkway, we learn that the lighthouse doesn’t mark the northern most tip of New Zealand. That would be the Surville Cliffs several kilometres to the east, and which reaches three kilometres north of here.
We camp at the nearby Te Paki Reserves campsite, set on a beach where people are fishing and where trucks towing boats drive right up the edge of the tide.
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