Dear all,
We landed in Auckland, New Zealand's biggest and main city, lastFriday. We used the first few days for getting over the jet-lag,attending some city-type attractions (underwater world - the penguinswere sooo cute, zoo etc.) and buying a car. Since Saturday we're thehappy owners of a 1991 Subaru Legacy (no nick name yet...), which formany practical reaseons will be our home in the coming two months. OnMonday we left Auckland and started enjoying the magnificent viewsand scenery, which are literally everywhere you look here. We're evenalraedy used to driving on the wrong (left) side of the road :-)
A few words about the country: it consists of a southern island and anorthern one. We started from the latter, plan to go southward in thecoming month or so, and then return up north to Auckland towards midJanuary. Our first destination was an area called the CoromandelPeninsula, in the north-east. We set our base in a campground in thearea, and are driving and hiking around every day. The sites aroundhere are really beautiful - lush green endless horizons, astonishingsea-shores and everything is oh, so green ! Due to Noga's 4-years-oldhiking ability (Hadas is sitting in her baby-carrier most of thehiking time), we limit ourselves to easy day-hikes, however there areplenty of them in New Zealand, so we're just fine. We visited somemagnificent waterfalls, went on a terrific gorge hike which includedgoing through a very long (1km) train-tunnel and today hiked themagnificent beaches of the area. It's difficult for us to describehow beautiful these places are - we hope to be uploading some photosto this group's site when we find more affordable internetconnection ...
Even the campground we're sleeping in is something different fromeverything we experienced as travellers. The cabin we're renting ispractically a room with a bed and mattress (waterproof tent, onecould say :-), however the suroundings are unique. Waking up with thegirls and going to feed the ducks in the nearby lake is indeed a niceway for opening the day. The main thing we'd like to improve is theextremely volatile weather. Within an hour, it sometimes switchesfrom sunshine to heavy rain, which makes it a bit difficult for us toplan ahead. We hope it'll be more stable (and sunny !) soon.There is quite a bit more to tell about travelling with kids (anintensive schedule !), but this seems to be a good point to stop tillour next bulletin.
Miss you all,
Love,
Hadas, Noga, Anat & Giora
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