I'm just outside of Auckland at Muriwai beach campground. Tomorrow will start my stay at Fat Cat Travellers Community for my last 2 weeks in NZ. It's a small organic farm about 30 minutes from Auckland central. I'm looking forward to sleeping indoors and perhaps being of some use around the farm. I need to find a home for my car and I would be lying if I said I wasn't a bit anxious about it. I hate giving up transportation for one thing and the logistics of getting it sold could be a bit messy. I'm sure it will work out and I'll just find a charity to donate it to if no one comes along that is in need of it.
Muriwai beach is a BIG ocean beach compared to all of the others I've seen. The waves are big, vicious and highly varied. I walked for a good 20 minutes quite a bit above the wave mark yesterday and then all of a sudden, my feet were wet with big waves coming out of seeming nowhere - a couple of big ones then they went back to normal. People were out trying to surf it but they seemed to just endlessly paddle out never getting anywhere. The walk this morning to the nearby Gannet colony found surfers having more fun. It is apparently a very dangerous place with several people a year losing their lives to the ocean.
View above the campground. See my car? ;)
This could very well be my last blog entry until Australia. I'll post if anything interesting happens but I'm expecting a quiet, peaceful couple of weeks.
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