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After the great time on the Fiji we went so again for five days back to Auckland. As has already been a few weeks ago we took back our old car from ACE Rentals and drove from the airport to Alan and Gilly, where we again found a warm home. On the way we have made a little excursion that took us over the Auckland Harbour Bridge, along the waterfront, the skyline of Central Business District in the background.
Of the Fiji we have brought minor stomach upsets - the first day we leave it then take it easy. We went to visit Sandra's former bus driver Ian and his wife Pauline, at the other end of the sprawling city. As usual, Sandra 2003 in Auckland, they were often driven by Ian at night directly in front of the house, with the public night bus full of people! This led to a pen pal that lasted over the years. Great was the joy of reunion. We were invited for lunch, and had to go through hundreds of photos we can. was taken as another big box of pictures, we attacked the white lie: Despite the pouring rain we claimed to want to drive to the beach :-) But it was great, and also showed that it pays to keep up unusual friendships. Ian and Sandra were happy.
evening we went further met with Sandra's old friend, her former colleague Jacky us downtown for a beer. She was so happy to reunite with Sandra, and bought the same round, on the grounds that we had already paid all the way to her. The two could then carry on from the chatter among colleagues and had a fine. The operation, a young New Zealander, was pleased with a smattering of German with us: he studied opera and learn why our difficult language ...
The next day we went go to our little trip to the north of the North Island. Afternoon we came to the mighty Kauri trees, particularly in New Zealand once a ubiquitous tree species, which puts the viewer in awe. First, we ran through the forest to Te Matua Ngahere, "the" Father of the Forest ". Not very high, but with 16.41 meters, the largest trunk circumference of all trees in New Zealand. Its trunk is 10.21 meters high, its total height was 29.9 meters. With former 208 m it has the second largest volume of all trees in New Zealand. Its age is estimated between 2000 and 3000 years. Then we hiked to 'Tane Mahuta', called the "God of the Forest" as the Maori him. He is one the largest still living trees and is the largest known kauri tree. Its root length is 51.5 m. The perimeter ground is 13.77 m, corresponding to a diameter of almost 4.5m. Only in 18 m height of the tree has branches. His age is probably 1250-2500 years.
Now we had enough of the trees, and drove west to the Bay of Islands. After an overnight stay in the car on the beach, where we met an interesting homeless Maori, and his kind invitation to breakfast from his cart to hygienic considerations, refused to his stories about the origin of today's eager but New Zealand listened, we were just a little of the magical coast. The Bay of Islands is a Kuestenabschnitt with numerous small islands that can be used particularly in the summer for all types of water sports. We would love also to the ship wreck of the "Rainbow Warrior" disappeared, but first, it was expensive, secondly, the wreck lies in deep-sea diving Michis permissible limit of 18 meters ... Next time. The ship was donated to Greenpeace, sunk after it (the older ones remember?) 1985 by French secret service with two packets of explosives, was in the "Operation Satanique" arranged and known to the French President Mitterrand. Il sont incroyable, les francais! I can even still vaguely reminiscent of the time. What I did not even: To the arrested then and freizupressen convicted of manslaughter and arson offenders, the European community imposed an import ban in 1986 a New Zealand lamb meat and butter threatened, even with further sanctions. Is not that crass? Read
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We drove back to Auckland, and spent some time with Alan and Gilly, and of course Jerry, Eric and Jack Jack, before we "goodbye" and said we were on our way to Singapore. On the last night Thats has a self-shot by Alan's friend Wild boar, served a type that normally hunt deer - from his helicopter, mountain Hammer Springs ... New Zealand indicated.
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