Wooden Clocks Plans Blueprints

From East Cape to East Cape Coromandel

thought breakfast on the terrace of Brian's Place is still that we will go today ...
... but then Kira convinces us to this walk and we followed the fence up until we had a really great view.

pitched up here ...

Kira is the way from Sweden and New Zealand is already in their first week of stuck here, which may be due to Edu, the muscle-bound loggers and rugby players from Tokomaru Bay. Now she manages the hostel, we have recorded more than friendly and we almost became friends and spent the evening together and cooked together. The parting was very difficult to us and you.

The next day we traveled with a stop at the really long Wharf.

The red spot is by the way :-) Christine

then went on to Cook `s` s Cove. The first real official DOC Walk, we were altogether about 3.5 hours on the way (with pause and look and all) and it was partly bad uphill and downhill. But it was worth it. For the picture below, we are still on the first look-out, then later we were at the end of the bay, at the Captain James Cook landed at that time.

This image is not fake!

After a final night in Gisborne-East Cape, we connect the onward journey to the direct path of Opotiki and discover on the road yet this suspension bridge that leads to nowhere.
This ends our visit to the East Cape, but we will come back and to our favorite hostel Brian `s Place to return.

The East Cape is definitely worth a visit, you have to leave but time just because there is just no tourist-highlights. But you are rewarded with the best New Zealand weather (all year), little discoveries, selbstgefischtem dinner and breathtaking scenery and quite a few people. To eat and enough fuel in the tank you should still get in Opotiki and Gisborne. If you drive from Gisborne, one has right of way on all the way, one lane bridges, we came of course from Opotiki, but had to wait yet before.

goes further `s direction Coromandel ...

Christine and Mark