rotorua was cool, its really volcanically active so there are tones of natural hot pools and bubbling mud, but it does stink. yeah rotorua stinks, but its still gud to see. we went to a place called the thermal wonderland near here and that was cool, we saw a geiser going off and some freeky deeky lookin pools. also stinky.

waitomo was where the caves were, that where we did the black water rafting. must admit it was good to do once, but you wouldnt catch me doin that again! basically you have your own rubber ring and you climb into the cave and go down the water in it. but its 300m underground, pitch black, and freezin cold. the glow worms looked sooo cool though, they were like thousands of tiny blue stars, but the cam coulndt pick them up because they were too faint. it was a b...

we ended up havin longer than expected in auckland because we had to wait for the bus pass to start, but it worked out ok in the end. miguel and bianca cooked us a meal which was really nice - mexico style lol. we then had a rough nights sleep as the walls at the hostel we moved to were paper thin (as in you could hear what was going on two rooms down) and the guy next door had really bad tourettes - even in his sleep. i had a barny with two french people coz the...

the drives though newzealand are much more interesting that aus, its gud coz theres quite alot to see. on the way to whitianga we stopped at a few places, we stopped at hot water beach, that was cool, you have to dig a hole in the sand to get to hot water underneath. i was impatient and stole someone elses hole, haha, unlucky! we also went wine tasting and came out two happy chappies, haha. whitianga itself is really nice, right on the sea, and a little quiet tow...

arrived in aukland last night and got picked up by our kiwi friend and taken around the city in the car and too his brothers for a cup of tea. that was nice. the hostel is alright, not the best, and we arent keen on aukland, its a bit of a dump, but only here for a few days and we are meeting up with the mexicans tomorrow! today we changed our flight back to brisbane so we have an extra month in newzealand. we bought a bus pass the day before we came here in br...