Drive North to Russell

From Whangarei we did a day trip to the north to Russell. The scenery on the way was mostly lovely rolling hills like this:

This is what some of the coast looked like:

Near Russell we got out an walked on this boardwalk through the mangroves.

Here's a close-up of the mangroves:

Rusell is a small quaint little town and it was fun to walk around. Here's the harbor:

I had never seen a fig tree but here is one and it is huge. It was planted in the 1800's. 

 Here are some of the gnarly branches. The figs were ripe and a few fell on the sidewalk.

We took the ferry to a town across the bay and had dinner at a Thai restaurant. The next day it was off the the airport and back to Samoa.