10/11/2017 - 12/11/2017

My Conservation Volunteers team and I rented a car for the weekend for some adventure time. 
After our work on Friday, we drove back to Auckland and got our car. 
Our first stop: the Kauri trees in a national park in the north. There we saw the second biggest Kauri tree (Father of the Forest) and the biggest one (Lord of the Forest). We went for a nice walk through the forests. In the evening, we drove to the Bay of Islands on the northeast, so that we could use the whole next day there. 
On Saturday, some of us went on a boat cruise, I decided on renting a kayak instead with another team member. We went by kayak to a nearby island and enjoyed having some time at a beach just to ourselves. After chilling some more on the mainland, we drove to another beautiful bay which was stunning in the golden light of the setting sun. 
On Sunday, we drove up north to Cape Reinga, the most northern point in New Zealand with the popular lighthouse. It's a sacred place to the Maoris as they believe that the souls float away with the sea after someone's death right there. Cape Reinga is certainly my favourite place in New Zealand so far. Since my mother has already been there and it's my father's childhood dream to get there one day, it was an amazing experience to be there. After that, we also visited another bay and did sand boarding at the huuuge sand dunes of ninety miles beach. Then it was time to get back to Auckland and to get ready for my next week in the volunteering programme.


















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