Northernward and onward

So, Northern new zealand, in all it's beauty and majesty is apparently the most boring part of new zealand. so so the other people at my hostel have been telling me. I don't know, i was rather enjoying it's simplicity, bu to i guess to each his own. Paihia is a gorgeous little tourist trap of a town, and we stayed down "backpackers alley" which was... interesting. As it turns out, we are located directly across the street from a rather loud bar. However, it seems that i have become a very sound sleeper, unusually seeing as i always slept lightly at home. Not that i'm complaining, this means i was able to (thank god) sleep through two nights of a roomate getting it on. *NOTE* having sex with drunk people in a dorm room is neither cool nor classy, it just pisses people off. Someone hid her pants this morning, and it was very amused "where are my trousers.. i can't find me f***ing trousers" hahahaha... I wish I was the one that hid them...

Yesterday we took a bus tour up to the northern tip of the island, cape reinga. Along the way, we drove along 90 mile beach, which is a registered highway despite the fact that it's underwater twice a day. you could see teh skeletons of cars that had gotten stuck at high tide rusting away, half buried by sand. WE also had a chance to go sand boarding. Sand boarding is one of those activities that brings out interesting group dynamic. The girls trudge slowly to the top of the dune complaining about how steep it is, the manboys run up and try to ride down standing and fall like idiots, the manmen. walk up an down methodically, trying to get their monies worth and people like me run up and fly down just having fun. It tends to attract some dirty looks from the lamer women... they are just jealous of our awesome is all.

The cape has a really neat spiritual feeling about it. It is thought to be the jumping off point for the spirits of dead mauri. From the lighthouse, you could see Tasmania in the distance. It's also the place where th pacific ocean and the tasman sea meet. The tasman sea is quite a violent body of water compared to the pacific. We could see the tasman all the way up 90 mile beach and it is quite a nasty sea when it comes right down to it.
The views along the whole bus ride were specatular.
I love New Zealnd
I love you all
I miss you
Sydney :)