Day 109 - Northland Here We Come

We didn't get up to too much this morning, we spent time with Liz and Florence before having lunch with Laurence and his Mum too. We got going around 13:00, departed Auckland and set off up North to Whangarei.

We got there around 15:00ish, we had booked (or so we thought) to stay at the YHA backpackers for the night, this was going to be used as a night to organise and catch up on blog's, sleep, pictures etc before living a rough, backpackers week for the rest of our time around Northland. In the end we soon found that we had booked to stay at the YHA Whitianga rather than Whangarei, an easy mistake to make! Unfortunately they had no space at Whangarei so it turned out sleeping it rough was going to occur sooner than we first thought!

We chilled out in town, was a nice sunny day. We spent a bit of time at McDonalds trying to get online via their free wi-fi, couldn't find a hotspot though so after a big Mac we headed into town.

We went to a Pool Bar this evening, had a few games of pool which took up a bit of time, we were all looking forward to tomorrow, the last expensive thing we had planned, diving at the Poor Knights Island off Tutukaka.

Later on this evening we drove back to YHA, not to stay there though but to stay outside on the quiet road we noticed before hand. We got out our sleeping bags and got into a position we hoped we could rest in. Was certainly not a comfortable night but a couple more beers helped out a little. Chino had the steering wheel, Staggie in the passenger seat and Jamie with bent legs at the back. Was a pretty crappy nights sleep but surprisingly went fast.

Chaggie x