Wednesday we drove north to Ninety Mile Beach, which is actually only 60 miles long. Don’t let that fact diminish this wide, hard-packed beach that stretches almost a hundred kilometers.
We didn’t venture much past the town of Ahipara, “Gateway to Ninety Mile Beach.”
Dune tobogganing is big here. Sawyer and I rented a quad bike and a boogie board from a local shop and set out north along the beach to find a dune to ride. What fun! Black diamond dunes lurked nearby, but we saved them for another day.
The breeze was something. “If we can’t fly a kite here, we can’t fly a kite anywhere,” said Hillery. Seems we keep buying kites that somehow or other can’t take off. As you can see in the video, this Warehouse parrot model flew like a barnstormer.
Exfoliated from the wind, sand, and sun, we headed to the world famous Mangonui Fish Shop to restore our lipids. The best part about New Zealand fish ‘n’ chips is that it’s all caught and fried locally. The same laminated poster summarizing New Zealand fish graces every fish shop. The days’ catch is circled with wax pencil. We had firm, white blue cod, which they rolled up hot with the chips in paper. With all that salt and fat, you can be sure we ordered the large size beer.
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