For those just looking for the answer, it's the "Poor Knights Crossing" in Tutukaka North Island New Zealand For everyone else, I will give you some more info. Tutukaka is about 3 hours drive north of Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand. As you leave the city it doesn't take long to feel like you are somewhere completely different. The further you go the more you feel like you are on a pacific island (you are, but i mean fiji or vanuatu etc). Once you arrive Tutukaka

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