Backpacking

New Zealand – 90 Mile Beach

Doesn’t this sound great? NINETY miles of beach – just beach!

Actually this beach is only 90 kilometres long, but 90 Mile Beach obviously sounds better than 90 Kilometre Beach. This beach is located on the west coast of the northern part of Northland and seems pretty lonely. We didn’t meet many people there although the nearly endless beach is really an nice scenerie.. Although there is a beach road along 90 Mile Beach you are only allowed to drive on this road with four-wheel-drive vehicles and actually our car rental contract even forbid us to drive along 90 Mile Beach..

But the funniest thing definitely was this sign that would have allowed us to go 100km/h while driving directly towards the beach! Any car making it this fast would probably end up in the sea, eh?!