The Drive from Coramundel to the Northland

Pumpkin is one of the cats at Otama Beach Resort. He kept us company and gave us wake-up meows.

So Friday morning, the 12th of January- we woke to pouring rain. A fun day of driving in the rain. It was 2 hours back to Auckland from the pennisula and we spent an hour at the Auckland airport recovering our bags- but the good news is we have them! From Auckland, we headed North- and the great thing is right outside of Auckland we found the Kemeu wine region! We just had to stop to do some wine tasting-only 2 vineyards -but a nice thing to do- and yes it was still pouring! The drive from Auckland to Doubtless Bay is supposed to be 4 hours- it took us more like 7 with the stop for wine tasting and a quick bite to eat in Whangarei. Whangarei is the biggest town in the Northland with a population of 40,000. From here it took us 2 hours to get to Taipa Bay Resort. And yes it was still pouring!