Well it was quite a long day of travel to get to Mount Maunganui, a town named due to the Mountain that sits right on the tip of the towns little peninsula. Along the peninsula there is beach on each side with a few streets between that make up a high street. This place is meant to be great for the beach life ans surfing, sadly due to my schedule (and magics crap way of only running on certain days due to an autumn time table coming out) I could only stay one night.

I checked into my room which was a 4 share dorm to find three Sweedish girls who were travelling together and had been there for days (needless to say I got a top bunk that night). The girls were very sweet but I still felt a bit of an outsider. I was a bit glum as I had left my pals Beck and Ric and the weather was bloody awful! However I got my waterproofs on; trousers and coat and headed out into the rain and gloom (looking like a should be in some horror movie as my outfit was all black and with the hood pulled up you can't really see me!). It took only 5 minutes to get to town but by then the shops had all closed, it look like a great town, had it been day time and sunny I would of enjoyed it immensly. I ended up buying fish and chips (again, it is just so cheap) and headed down to the sea front to eat my tea - thankfully the rain had let up a bit.

On the way home I caught a movie, the Changling, which was pretty good except a bit depressing. I got back and had an early night ready to head to Whitianga the next afternoon.