Badminton trip away

This is the view from the deck:

Recently, I had to play tow Veteran's ties in Whangerei, which is a city about 160km north of Auckland, which is where I live.

It involves a day's playing of badminton with other silly old folks. We won one and lost one. Oh well, cie la vie.

To grab the opportunity, we decided on a four day weekend, staying at a place called Tutukaka, which is about 30 minutes from Whangerei. We stayed at Pacific Rendesvous Motel.

On the Sunday we did the trip to Russel and back, which seemed a lot longer and windier than it did on the map!