Barry!!!

We went on a trip today to the most northern point in new zealand, Cape Reinga. its supposedly a very spiritual place where peoples spirits go to depart into the spiritual world. not sure about that but very beautiful anyway. our coach driver was soooo funny. we was called Barry and he talked a lot, basically for about 4 hours non-stop and he was very easily distracted by things like joggers or his aunts shop! he talked about death a lot and all the people he knew who had died, like Wally (lol) his uncle, his best friend who was a maori master carver, his son ( :( ), Len a fellow coach driver, his mother and his aunt who was a beautiful person and was the first maori woman to graduate university! it was quite sad but we couldn't help but be greatly amused! he also showed us the church yard where he was going to be burried!

After Cape Reinga we went to some huge sand dunes that we could sort of surf down which was so much fun, although exhausting to climb to the top! the most fun though was when lucy tried to 'surf' down a little tiny sand dune and fell over spectaculary (no bones broken)!!

on the way back we drove down '90 mile beach' (actually more like 60 miles) which was pretty cool and we got some good piccys of us titting about!

The only slight drama was when lucy left her purse on the bus, we realised when we were back at the hostel. this caused about 20 minutes of panic but all is well now as Barry managed to track it down for her (good old Bazza) ! :)