Our next stop was the Southernmost part of the North Island. The first thing that drew us here were the Putangirua Pinnacles, a fantastic landscape that was also used to film part of the Paths of the Dead sequence in Lord of the Rings.

The second thing that drew us there was the Southernmost point of the North Island, which of course also had a Geocache.

Driving to that Geocache we saw many cars next to a bay and so stopped as well. When we got there, we saw that there was a large New Zealand Fur Seal Colony. We spent a long time observing them and marveling at the strange way they moved on land.

However, this wasn’t the Southernmost corner, so we continued a bit to Cape Palliser lighthouse, which sits atop a cliff and can be reached after climbing 253 steps. From up there we had spectacular views all along the coast.

And of course, we also found the Southernmost Cache ;).