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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
Is it the grumpy old man in me kicking in or are there genuinely far more roadworks these days than in the past ?
I’m driving to Shield Snorters on the 23rd and getting angry in advance.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
As I live in NSW I always find the roads a breeze when I'm in NZ. Much less bumpy. TBF I feel the same way when crossing over the border into Queensland.
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@mariner4life said in Travel:
crossing over the border into Queensland
so, never driven the Bruce highway then. what a disgraceful piece of shit that is
Nope - actually I've driven Cairns to Townsville, but that was years ago.
I guess I just mean SEQ,
My point was NSW roads suck.
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Well Kaitaia to Cape Reinga and down to Waitangi via Ahipara today and it's been a fucking excellent and beautiful drive, superb roads and smiles on our faces the whole way. Really don't understand the issue, especially having come from London. Glorious driving weather too. Roadworks every so often, but fuck it's no bother.
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Well Kaitaia to Cape Reinga and down to Waitangi via Ahipara today and it's been a fucking excellent and beautiful drive, superb roads and smiles on our faces the whole way. Really don't understand the issue, especially having come from London. Glorious driving weather too. Roadworks every so often, but fuck it's no bother.
They can be an issue if there’s cold beer waiting at your destination and you’re stuck in one spot for a period of time but I get your point.
I’ll take a more positive outlook on my drive to the Bay in a few days.
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@MajorRage said in Travel:
Cape Reinga flights planned binned. Couldn’t get on!
Let me know (in advance) if you want to do something like that next time. I'm always looking for excuses to go flying up there (if I take a job that I have been offered, I'll have access to a variety of small commercial aircraft up to 10 seats as well as the usual ones available). You would of course have to put your faith in some bloke off the internet - you can pay in advance to my Nigerian bank account that I use to donate millions of dollars to random people that might want it (although we have met, and you do know who I worked for). Even from AKL it's only about 3 hrs return to the Cape in something slow, or 1:30 return from KK. You can pick up one of the beach trips or whatever from Kaitaia (without having to stay there) if you want to be on the ground as well.
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@MajorRage said in Travel:
Cape Reinga flights planned binned. Couldn’t get on!
Let me know (in advance) if you want to do something like that next time. I'm always looking for excuses to go flying up there (if I take a job that I have been offered, I'll have access to a variety of small commercial aircraft up to 10 seats as well as the usual ones available). You would of course have to put your faith in some bloke off the internet - you can pay in advance to my Nigerian bank account that I use to donate millions of dollars to random people that might want it (although we have met, and you do know who I worked for). Even from AKL it's only about 3 hrs return to the Cape in something slow, or 1:30 return from KK. You can pick up one of the beach trips or whatever from Kaitaia (without having to stay there) if you want to be on the ground as well.
Some Polish chick you mean?
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Well Kaitaia to Cape Reinga and down to Waitangi via Ahipara today and it's been a fucking excellent and beautiful drive, superb roads and smiles on our faces the whole way. Really don't understand the issue, especially having come from London. Glorious driving weather too. Roadworks every so often, but fuck it's no bother.
Two reasons. One is 9 the other is 11.
I don’t blame them. 6 hours driving in the sun or swimming / boating … it’s a no brainer.
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@MajorRage hah, we've hit some fine luck, it's been mildly cloudy with the odd 2 minute shower whenever we've driven. Sun came out as soon as we hit Paihia.
I'll try and guess which bloke you are at Bad Habits later, I'll be looking for young kids.
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@taniwharugby chur bro! Think we're gonna be pushed for time but will definitely keep it in mind if we end up with an hour or two on the way through on Friday.
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@Bones sweet, if it works...I'll be out from about 2 on Friday though...
@MajorRage didn't realise you were over too, same applies to you, although expect with kids in tow your time is even more limited 😉
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@taniwharugby if that's him at the anchorage he's got his hands full and I can see why he's having trouble with driving by the state of his parking.
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Shit that's a pretty challenging walk from Paihia to Russell eh. 20km and 5 hours later we had fuck all energy to take a squizz, but seems a nice place with not a lot to it. MR probably would've busted it out in an hour. Rewarding though and bye bye jetlag.
Oh and yeah, if there's a terrain type we didn't traverse, I can't think of it. Crazy variety.