Ruakaka

Today we drove to Ruakaka to check out a house that we might rent. It was our first big drive in Binney, and he was great! It was nice to get out of the city...Auckland is a cool city, but it's a pain to have a car there. 

Ruakaka is a little town on Bream Bay about an hour and half north of Auckland. It has an awesome beach, and apparently the surfing there is quite good too. The house we looked at was nice, but we will have to see if we can get a rental length that fits in with our plans (there is another place available starting around Christmas that we are interested in...more on that tomorrow).

We are staying the night in Ruakaka so we spent the afternoon at the beach. First "vacationy" afternoon we've had in NZ so far, so yay! It's spring here so it's not super warm yet, but Scott still went in the ocean.  I spent my beach time finally getting back into Dance with Dragons, I've neglected it for so long! Nice to finally have some relaxing time :)

Here's a few pics from the beach! Forgot to take any others of Ruakaka, oops. If we end up renting the house here then there will be plenty of opportunity for more :)

Ruakaka

Such a pretty beach, and we have it all almost to ourselves!

Scott braved the chilly water

I opted for relaxing on the beach instead

Look at this sand dollar go!