We CAN'T BELIEVE THIS is outside Auckland! Piha Beach, Karekare Beach, Mercer Bay Loop New Zealand🇳🇿

[@tianagovan9864]

That's me at sozo coffee house serving you 😂😂😂 I was told I was in video that's awesome hahaha

[@Patricia.rogers]

Hello Glen and Mado, Thankyou for the awesome journey you both have shared with us all. Of gorgeous New Zealand my home land. You both always welcome to return. Really enjoyed watching these video's. Enjoy the rest of your adventure's elsewhere. Looking forward to watching more of your travel's. Much love and respect. To you both. :)

[@operator6786]

A big hello to Glen & Mado, Robyn & I have watched your journey through New Zealand & have been with you all the way on our screen, we appreciate all the effort you both have put into bringing this absolutely enjoyable adventure that you have brought to you tube of your journey through N.Z you are now regarded as kiwi's, you should be proud of yourselves for the many tramps & tracks that you have covered amazing stuff, we will miss you when you both finally depart our shores, but hope you will return some day, all the very best for your ongoing journey where ever it may take you.. Jim & Robyn

[@rachelmartin2967]

Rachel martin Phil driver coffee shop new Zealand bush new Zealand kikikiia clumping .

[@theunknownunknowns256]

The Piano 1993 movie. Three Academy awards. They filmed just south of there for the beach sence. Hauntingly beautiful.

[@karinkereama]

Kia Ora guys another great vlog. Westside beach perfection. Always love Mado’s cafes and Glen’s coffee review.

[@lesleyhughes3174]

That was a baby gull Glen, screeching out to its mother to feed it.

[@MyEverydayGarden]

Sozo! My dear 91 yr old Dads local! Tailgating-true. Love your videos. Loved the Coromandel one. We live on the Whitianga end of 309 Road.❤

[@catzkeet4860]

Auckland has two coasts that are radically different. The west coast is over the Waitakere ranges (why tak ah reh) and they're wild ocean beaches. Wide black sands and actually fairly dangerous surf beaches with shifting currents and rips, if you don't listen to the lifeguards. They're also the surfing beaches, Piha, Kari Kari,and Muriwai to name a few. On the other coast you have the beaches that face into the Hauraki Gulf, which are tamer....more domesticated, like Takapuna and the other north shore bays, Browns bay, castor bay, Mairangi bay, long bay etc. completely different feel and composition with white sand and less wild water. Sadly they also have pollution issues now and then, being in built up areas.

[@432htz3]

Lots of roadworks because they are still repairing the damage from cyclone Gabrielle which also destroyed a lot of houses as you saw at KareKare beach. Aucklands west coast got hammered during the cyclone and unfortunately a number of lives were lost. Still a beautiful place though.

[@norryone]

If you want a good afternoon go to the best pub in Auckland, the Northcote Tavern, and then walk down under the harbour bridge, there is a little park, fantastic close view of the harbour back to the city

[@myobacctsgirl]

My local coffee shop in Henderson! The park where you were in Henderson was also completely flooded with many houses having to be evacuated. Glad you enjoyed the wild West Coast of Auckland. A lot of tracks were closed because of slips from the bad weather we had in Jan/Feb23. Piha had been closed to all but residents until just b4 Christmas (I believe). Those 'dead' trees are ponga trees, often because of possums eating all the foliage... if not because of another slip. The Waitakere Ranges is often a weather break for Auckland because they stretch far along the coast - sunny on one side, cloudy on the other. Enjoyed watching your travels. Thanks for taking this old lady on for the ride. Hopefully see you back again one day 😊

[@susanmakiha9838]

What's the name of it? I tried zooming in but couldn't catch it 😄

[@ezeJeff]

Go to Matakahana, Leigh where you can see Goat Island. Omaha Beach, Pakiri Beach Horse Rides long white sands wild, tomatra lakes parkiri

[@gifted1s]

Ohhh you missed out on one of the best pie shops in Glen Eden…aaand did you miss the cave at Piha! Facing the Lions Rock, the cave is on the right, right at the end of the beach. Piha beach is always packed during summer! It is also a dangerous beach due to many rips which is why people are always advised to swim between the flags.

[@gregorylongmuir4036]

So glad you both got out to piha it's definitely 1 if new zealands best beaches I think more so when it's wet and windy as it's just so beautiful when all the water falls are working My teenage years i mostly spent every weekend out there walking surfing and just chilling

[@ezeJeff]

At Piha where you saw the house looks like spaceship that is a new building as it use to be Surflife Club. From Lions Rock to the South there should be a walk to take you up and over the hill and back down to another beach where you can see blow hole and island close to beach where you can see a hole / cave where the Tasman Sea passes through the island

[@David-wn4pi]

Come and stay here😊

[@grant4176]

Have you guys been to Muriwai beach yet? There is a cave under the Gannet colony. North Auckland. Black sand beach too. It's awesome too!

[@tonybennett4159]

That gannet colony is a great place to visit.

[@AnneSimpson-pr3gm]

Have you been to Takapuna beach?

[@alexn6060]

Those aren't Kauri trees and that isn't Kauri dieback 🤦‍♂ @16:30. And its Karekare where the waterfall is, Kerikeri (Rainbow Falls) are about 300km north.

[@richardcaldwell9160]

Hey G & M, you just keep finding gem after gem. I really thought Kerikeri Falls were pretty damn good x

[@angelasmith3332]

Karekare. Kerikeri is in the far north, a few hours drive from Karekare.

[@tonybennett4159]

I remember visiting Piha on a summer's day and regretting setting off for the water's edge without footwear. The sun heats the black sand to scorching temperatures.

[@mazharyousafzai7537]

Waw Amazing i watch from Pakistan beautiful country 👍👍👍

[@jamesmackay.2437]

You sadly got a bit of a bad day. But it changes daily there. Hopefully you got to see some of the other west coast beaches like Muriwai and Bethel's. You would have loved the gap at Piha too

[@Tuatara587]

Way back in th 1980s used to go to Piha and Karekare all the time in summer. I always remember some graffiti on a road barrier on the way - "Live Hard-Surf Hard and have great bodies". Thats how we lived back then !

[@nsevv]

So this is where all the ACK responses come from.

[@johnmcnulty1129]

☀️ 🇳🇿 Awesome vlog as always guys. Sure l saw a documentary once about that "This is a very spiritual place" sheer cliff face (14.25) If it is, piece of dark history :( Saying that, go back in history, not even that far relatively speaking, whole chapters of events suffered by the orginal occupants of both 🇳🇿 & 🇦🇺 , "brushed over" . As for many parts of the 🌏

[@Southh24]

duder beach walk.maraetai beach.kawakawa beach.

[@Southh24]

go to the auckland museum

[@E3kiel]

Piha is part of Auckland.

[@peterhirst7315]

gLEN , COULD YOU WIND UP YOUR WINDOW, ,,i'M FEELING A BIT COLD.

[@Metalsignman]

Tailing gating - the locals are so used to the road out there that when tourists drive it they always go so slow and the locals just want to get home and are stuck behind drivers with no confidence just pull over and let them pass

[@edgeplay4205]

Haha you did not go far enough to see the cave - you will just have to go back at low tide..

[@jamesmackay.2437]

Karekare falls is the correct spelling. Just fyi

[@lesleyhughes3174]

The motor camp at Piha is great. Laid back and relaxing during ' off peak ..no Aucklanders visiting!!'😊

[@Auckland-girl]

Pfft

[@cherrygaddes120]

You’re leaving us now?

[@lesleyhughes3174]

@@cherrygaddes120 wks ago. Been to three other countries since this.

[@SD78]

People get killed at Piha every year. It's part of the attraction.

[@rayfc63]

Welcome to Piha. A place where Aucklanders disappear!

[@BoothCyril]

Anderson Mary Young Larry Moore Timothy

[@Peter-kk6rg]

Be careful their is a serial killer lose in Piha six people missing.

[@allentewhare1102]

Jafars are noted tailgaters in our nation.

[@lesleyhughes3174]

@@allentewhare1102 while texting.

[@TheClunkingFist]

Tailgating? Don't talk to me about tailgating. As a student on a road trip through the country in summer of 1985/86, my mate, who wouldn't let anyone touch his car, said to me "here you go, you can drive for a bit." And onto Auckland's southern motorway we went. Everyone was driving 120km/h and only 2 metres apart. Madness. So, yes: it's an Auckland thing. Although less so these days in my experience.

[@Auckland-girl]

Was recently on the chch southern motorway, I was tail gated constantly, all Over chch tbh. Was horrendous so no its not an auckland thing. It's a nz thing..hideous drivers who.hate indicating too

[@moniquegin8444]

Piha, you either love it or hate it. Ive never liked it. Many people have drowned there and people go on a trail walk and have never returned