New Zealand Memories 2

The next day waited for my bus. My mom, grandmother and grandfather were in it, plus a couple of old couples. Cool. Im on the fucking pensioners bus. Not that lucky. Another place im not going to meet people. Went to the beach. Amazing long wide beach! Like in Spain. I was getting used to the Australian beaches which are usually short and pretty narrow so I was quite pleased on this one, at the end of it we went to do the sand boarding on the huge dunes that are there. Dunes of easy 20 or 25 meters high. Went up with the board I could found on the back of the bus. When I finally got up the dune, I could not breath for a while with the horrible shape I was at that time, when I finally could say something without swallowing my lungs, I jumped on the board and slided myself. Got really really fast all the way down there. Fantastic! So cool that I wanted to do it again, but, fuck, I had to go all the way up again if I wanted to go it again. Fuck. I saw a couple of the old guys thinking in going again. I could not be that lazy, so, went up again. Took me like 5 minutes extra to recover of the way up the dune. But it was worth it went I jumped again. Down there I saw heaps of people going up again from another buses. Too many people, too much effort and I had done it twice. Fuck it. Went back to the bus to rest. Went after to see the cape reinga with is almost the most nother point of New Zealand. Supposedly where the souls of the dead maori people leave to get to heaven, to a place with a similar name to Hawaii; maybe to the proper Hawaii to have party and surf forever? and where Tasman ocean and pacific ocean meet. Amazing view from the top of the hill seeing that amount of water all together. I love water places. The power of the ocean just there in front of you. There is a couple of typical touristy pictures on the lighthouse there, and heaps of mythological maori stories related with the place. After that we went to see the kauri trees. Amazing huge trees of 30 meters high and a trunk that 3-4 people holding hands would cover their perimeter. Biggest trees I have ever seen. Protected now, almost about to get extinct thanks to the human beings that used to use the good wood you can get out of them. Got back to paihia and met the girl that offered me a coffee through cs. Had a smoothie and talked about traveling, Africa and New Zealand. My bus was going back to Auckland next day. Nice kiwi transports. Wasting half of my day there without anything else to do. We talked about hitch hiking and she suggested I should give a try, if I don’t get a ride I can always get the bus next day as my original plan was. Why not!, she told me where was the best spot. Sounded good. Went to have a look on internet, I had a couch in Whangerei, town half way back to Auckland from there. Sweet. Texted the guy and arranged the meeting. Gave a try. Got two rides, first of them in 30 seconds of waiting, just raised my arm once, and second in 10 min of waiting. Way too easy. Looked like im not going to catch a bus anymore. Arrived to his house where he was living with his wife. Talked about New Zealand and his trips around the country hitch hiking. More encouragement. Went for a pint with his musician friend, they gave me dinner and slept like a baby. Like kiwi people.