90 Mile Beach and Cape Reinga Accommodation: Northland, New Zealand Our plan was to visit 90 mile beach and Cape Reinga, stay for 1 night somewhere in Northland, New Zealand, and head back to Auckland to stay with our friends…
Cape Reinga
Cape Reinga (ree-ayn-guh) is not (as I previously thought) the northern most point in New Zealand. However, because it’s the most visited north point of New Zealand, most people, at the outset of their bus tours up to the cape…
Sand sledding on 90 Mile Beach
Just in from 90 mile beach are some sand hills where you can go sand sledding. Hardly anyone makes it down the hill on the sled. It’s an almost vertical face you’re sledding down, and pretty difficult to keep the…
90 Mile Beach
90 Mile Beach is exactly what it sounds like, except that it’s not really 90 miles long… It’s something like 76 Miles long. But someone called it 90 Mile Beach, and the name stuck. 80 years ago, 90 Mile Beach…