Towards the end of our trip to New Zealand, we visited Cape Reinga, the John O'Groats of New Zealand:
Being a much-visited place, it has an obligatory signpost:
In common with John O'Groats, it isn't the most northly point in New Zealand; that point lies a few miles to the east:
This is the place where the Pacific meets the Tasman Sea. We were told that the waves from those two bodies of water sometimes crash together violently. Alas, it was pretty calm when we visited:
This being (nearly) the very north of New Zealand, the local flora was starting to look very tropical. The contrast between the vegetation here and that in the south was striking.
One particular piece of vegetation was, we learned, sacred to the local Maori population:
One of the nearby islands was, apparently, a haven for indigenous wildlife:
The view from our campsite wasn't bad either:
Alas, we couldn't spend much time in this area and headed back to Auckland quickly, to get ready for our flight to Singapore.
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