"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard

This is where Tauranga Bay is, it's the very top of the North Island of New Zealand, it's around a 5 hour drive from Auckland.

Once you got off the motorway the rest of the drive up is basicly through countryside, so a good two hours of rolling hills, farmland and our beloved sheep. Strange fact, on last count there were four times as many sheep living in New Zealand then people, and yet lamb is still expensive as hell!

This is the house we stayed in, it's about a 5 min walk from the beach.

This is the view from the balcony of where we're staying, not too shabby right?

These are pictures of the beach, which as I said before was about a 5 min walk from where we were staying, it was so beautiful, and even though it was freezing because it is still winter here we did attempt to swim. Not for long mind you, but we tried! lol.

This is Tauranga bay, sadly the weather was really overcast so it's not the best picture, but it is a lovley place to visit.

This is the Tauranga Bay fence full of Jandles, for some reason New Zealanders love putting stuff on fences, these include but are not limited too, hubcaps, bras, bikes, underwear, socks and road signs stolen from various places across the country.

This is Rainbow Falls, it had rained really hard the night before so the falls were nice and full, and loud, boy were they loud!

These are the sunsets of day two and day five of our holiday, they were just so stunning that I thought i'd snap a quick picture of them.

On our way home after an amazing trip we came across this licence plate and although it's really childish it made us all laugh, if you can't read it, it says "69DUDE"