点评:Undertook this Salt Air Cape Reinga Half Day Tour from Paihai on 25 March 2024
Driven to Kerikeri airport in minivan, by a great driver - Jim.
At the airport we met our pilot for the trip – Johnathon.
OK, I admit it, to me (in my old age) Johnathon looked way too young to be in charge of flying anything other than a kite…..!!
Oh boy, was I wrong.
This young man is a magician with an airplane.
He skillfully feathered our little plane up - firstly on a paved runway, then up and down upon a grass runway (which wasn’t flat!) and down upon a grass runway which was flat.
As we flew north, Johnathon piloted the plane to show us the myriad number of bays, scattered townships, farming lands, beaches (including the ‘ninety-mile beach’ (which, chuckle, is really only about 35 miles long!) plantations, the hills and flatlands.
At one stage we viewed a pod of Dolphins leaping with joyful abandon, relatively close to a deserted shore.
When flight came close to Cape Reinga, plane was abandoned for a minibus. Johnathon, with same skill shown during flight, drove us to Cape Reinga, then Tatouhou Bay, (where he delighted us with picnic of hot cuppa and muffin) then took us to Te Paki Sand Dunes, before driving us back to plane and undertaking the return flight to Kerikeri Airport - where once again the excellent driving skills of Jim delivered us back to Paihia.
Johnathon wasn’t just “pilot for the day”. To me, forevermore, he will be the “one in a million” pilot. His skill set is incredible.
The day was fabulous.
One cannot go to NZ without:
• Going to Cape Reinga to view the meeting of the Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean and to watch their waters mingling,
• Marveling at the tenacity of the Mauri sacred tree,
• Walking around the Cape Reinga Lighthouse and its attendant Signpost.
This tour is most definitely not to be missed.
It was the highlight of my comprehensive tour of NZ from Stewart Island in the South, to Bay of Islands in the North. Toe to tip of NZ.
Go for it. You will not regret it.
翻译:2024 年 3 月 25 日,从 Paihai 出发,参加了 Salt Air Cape Reinga 半日游
由出色的司机 Jim 驾驶小型货车前往凯里凯里机场。
在机场,我们遇到了这次旅行的飞行员——Johnathon。
好吧,我承认,对我(在我年老的时候)来说,Johnathon 看起来太年轻了,除了放风筝外,什么都不能负责……!!
天哪,我错了。
这个年轻人是飞机魔术师。
他熟练地将我们的小飞机飞了起来——首先是在铺好的跑道上,然后在草地跑道上(不是平坦的!)上下起伏,然后在平坦的草地跑道上降落。
当我们向北飞行时,约翰森驾驶飞机向我们展示了无数的海湾、分散的城镇、农田、海滩(包括“九十英里海滩”(笑,其实只有 35 英里长!)种植园、丘陵和平原。
有一次,我们看到一群海豚在离荒芜海岸较近的地方欢快地跳跃。
当飞机接近雷因格角时,飞机被一辆小巴取代。约翰森在飞行过程中展示了同样的技巧,他开车送我们到雷因格角,然后是塔图霍湾(在那里,他用热茶和松饼招待了我们),然后带我们去了蒂帕基沙丘,然后开车送我们回飞机,返回凯里凯里机场——在那里,吉姆出色的驾驶技术再次把我们送回了派希亚。
约翰森不仅仅是“当一天的飞行员”。对我来说,他永远是“万里挑一”的飞行员。他的技术景色令人难以置信。
这一天真是太棒了。
来新西兰,一定要做以下事情:
• 去雷因格角观看塔斯曼海和太平洋的交汇,看两海的海水交汇;
• 惊叹于毛里圣树的坚韧;
• 绕着雷因格角灯塔和它的路标走一圈。
这次旅行绝对不能错过。
这是我从南部的斯图尔特岛到北部的岛屿湾的新西兰之旅的亮点。从南到北,从北到南。
去吧。你不会后悔的。