Waiheke-Island (II)

.. a week has passed since Waiheke Island. During this time, I hardly had the chance to use my phone (except for taking photos and videos) to write more posts. Too much to see. Too much to do. Too little internet. 🙄

Internet is a rare commodity here. Either you have a campsite with Wi-Fi (for a limited time or limited data) or you are in parts of the country where the World Wide Web still needs to be invented. If it weren't for friends, girlfriend, and family back home who wanted to see signs of life, one could actually live quite well here in NZ with this fact.

But back to Waiheke Island! ☝🏼️

You arrive, walk along the island road in changing weather, always towards the sea, and suddenly find yourself at this beautiful beach!

We chill there for a while, take our first 'beach photos' (oh how many more will come this week, haha..) and treat ourselves to lunch at the local kiosk: A bag of chips for me, a pack of cookies for Thimo. We can eat healthy! 💪🏼

Over rocky sections of the beach and some endlessly long roads that not only go all over the island, but also go up and down just as steeply as a roller coaster, we head towards Palm Beach - supposed to be great too. So they walk a whopping 6 km with the little backpack on their back (why the hell were these damn bikes so expensive!!!) and arrive at Palm Beach: well, it's okay but the other one was cooler. But we still take a break here, in the big toilet building. Yep. When the New Zealand 3-minute monsoon suddenly strikes, any shelter is welcome.

When it dried up, we head back to the mainland - hunger makes us quickly walk the 6 km back.

In the evening, we have to change hostels for one night. It's off to the YHA hostel in the city center. Complete mass processing there. 8-bed room, everything a bit strange when you had a double room in a quiet hostel all to yourself the previous nights.

It will do for one night.