{"id":68,"date":"2020-02-25T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/?p=68"},"modified":"2021-07-19T05:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:26:39","slug":"kaipara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 Kaipara to Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>An early start as we had a ferry to catch. I got the big breakfast in Dargaville. It was big!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-3.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ride down to Poutu Pt started well, but it was hillier than I expected and eventually became a rough logging track. The bikes (and riders) took a beating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"http:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_1438494131330451131485281-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>First view of Kaipara harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In our concern not to miss the ferry, we arrived 3 hours early, and the ferry was an hour late. It was great to have some down time (first of the trip I think). We swam in the sea and bought food at the camp ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"http:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200224_171536-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ferry was slow. It arrived in Helensville at 11pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"http:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_20200224_2225566907396315134693256-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>4 of us decided to ride to Auckland. What a blast riding the quiet roads under lights. Definately one of my highlights so far. In bed soon after 2am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early start as we had a ferry to catch. I got the big breakfast in Dargaville. It was big! The ride down to Poutu Pt started well, but it was hillier than I expected and eventually became a rough logging track. The bikes (and riders) took a beating! In our concern not to miss &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/?p=68\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 3 Kaipara to Auckland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/39south.com\/tour-aotearoa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}