cape reinga on down

after trekking to cape brett and seeing the hole in the rock up close and personal....we headed to cape brett to see the collision of the tasman sea and the pacific. (right photo) that night we stayed in northland and woke up uber early to watch the sun rise (left pic). when we went back to the backpackers we bumped into a girl who accused us of stealing her cell phone. heh she watched us go through our bags and car at least 3 times and still was convinced we took it...silly silly.... the last pic is a black sand beach just north of taranaki. we had a lovely picnic and hang out over there before heading towards new plymouth