Tickets for Island Rock have just been released, and they will be selling fast! Cruise to Urupukapuka Island for an evening of live music with ‘Northland Battle of the Bands’ winner Sam Bartells & Cover Band ‘Dirty Dozen’ featuring Lisa Crawley.
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On my way back from Paihia in the Bay of Islands late this afternoon, I decided to take a little detour down to Opua before the drive back to Auckland. Opua is best known as the departure point for the car ferry to Russell and it’s a superbly casual arrangement that epitomises laid-back Northland. No [...]
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Do you like good coffee? Do you like fantastic food? What if I said you could have both of these and the feel-good factor that comes from eating organic vegetarian fare? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a full-time vegetarian, but I happily forgo bacon and steak whenever I visit my favourite little café at [...]
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Paihia is hot, hot, hot! Literally. Here in the Bay of Islands it is bikini weather, quite frankly, and I’m a little envious of the girls toting their beach bags and flip-flopping in their jandals down the footpath, heading for the sands of Te Ti Beach (just a quick walk around the headland from Paihia [...]
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