east cape and bay of plenty

so after i left napier on the 2nd of april i headed north, up the east cape, with a german girl and a french guy... was a complete random mix, and coincidence that that we were all heading the same way, but anyways... we had a great time and you should have seen my precious: with the three of us, three huge, stuffed backpacks and even more junk my car was so bloody bulging! =) on the first day we drove up all the way to tokomaru bay... with small stops in mahia peninsula (class 1b: it was a beautiful day at the beach and the french guy looked just like tadzio, so i pretty much felt like aschenbach=), gisborne and other places... there we stayed at this nice and cosy bbh hostel, kind of a cottagy feeling... there i had the most random revelation of all: i was looking through the guest book and i saw an entrance by sanna, a girl who was in my parallel class in the kirchenfeld gymnasium!!! wicked, aye???!!! =) anyways... the next morning we woke up to this beautiful sunrise... we didnt even have to get out of bed to watch it!!! gorgeous!!! after two nights in tokomaru bay the three of us continued up the coast... and made a samll detour to have a look at the east cape and its light house... those four days driving along the coast were awesome, cos we listened to great museic, had awesome company and had a nice little road trip in nz - what more could you want?! =) (plus it was nice, for a change, to just chill on the passenger seat and just enjoy hte ride and scenery...=) on the way we just stopped at different places... we went to see a church that is half christian and kinda mixed with the moari culture, so that was pretty interesting (fyi: inside the church it smelt just like ruemligen!?)... since the east coast and cape are more of a maori territory we saw heaps of marais (hopw i spelt it the right way...) too... the next night we stayed in te kaha... where the kiwi experience bus stopped - but, thank god, they were only five people, cos the magic and kiwi bus dont go there too often... phew! =) that night wsa gorgeous! having a few beers, watching the sunset and singing songs, accompanied by the guitar... =)the next day we continued (still driving and chilling in the car with awesome music...=) to whakatane... where we had trouble finding any accomodation because it was the easter weekend... were lucky in the end, though... in the evening silke (the german girl) and i went to see miss potter (good one!) at the movies, and it was probably good that jonas didnt come as well, because it probably was a bit of a girly movie...
and that was it for the three of us... the next morning silke went on a daytrip to white island, jonas went dolphin swimming and i headed south, towards rotorua, to meet the cairns-nelsons...