Great NZ Road Trips

Southlander Nicola McCloy did many a roadie during her childhood in the family's Datsun 180B.

Since then, she has explored all that a New Zealand road trip has to offer and written about it in her book Let's Get Lost. 

Photographs by Jane King.

Listen to Nicola McCloy on Nine to Noon here.

Nicola MCloy

The open road heading for Awatere Valley

The statue of Wairaka stands over Whakatane

Castlepoint Lighthouse

The view across Hicks Bay

Tolaga Bay as seen from the Tatarahake Cliffs walkway

Kumara's old swimming pools

Pale uplift rocks at South Bay

Hot tubs in Omarama

photographer, Jane King

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