Driving back down from Cape Reinga we stopped to visit Gumdiggers Park. Kauri gum was once NZ's biggest export and this area of land has many preserved kauri logs (one is estimated to be between 100,000 and 150,000 years old), gum holes and a village of gumdiggers huts. We've been here before but that was many years ago and it was worth a re-visit.
Hut with gumboots - so named because the gum diggers used them in their watery pits. (Wellington boots are called gumboots for this reason in NZ.)
Ahipara is at the bottom end of 90 Mile Beach. We stayed in a motor camp as we wanted to use a washing machine, wifi etc.
The beach curves up '90 miles' to Cape Reinga. It's actually about 55 miles or 88km.
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