We head off to Wellington, towards the Top 10 site for power and showers (although the camper one is surprisingly good). Oh dear on the way we happen to be passing an shopping outlet centre... By 11am brand new pair of trainers has been purchased and we were checking in. We grab the timetable and make our way outside to the bus stop. 30minutes later we are in Welliington town centre. We shop and explore the art galleries and we are already a bit in love with the...

Today was about breaking the back of the journey to Wellington, we had the inter islander ferry to catch in 3 days. Once again we embarked on a wonderful drive and ended up staying on a freedom camp near Woodville on the Manuka Gorge by the river bed. After driving along the gorge twice as I kept missing the entrance and the next turn off was 10km each way after the gorge... Duh! A little loop walk of 20 mins turned into an hour as we lost our way finding little ...

Today we were on a mission..... Bags packed and off we walked. We walked right along the bay towards the areas famous gannet colony. Several hours later we were as far as we could go at a little cafe in the village of Clifton. Unfortunately to walk to the colony which was yet another 2 hours away you had to leave 2 hours before low tide and return within an hour the other end. Today's slot was 7am oh well maybe tomorrow at 6:30am. The day was glorious and we hea...

So far on all of our adventures we have never missed out (we have even had more than we bargained for) however today we did! A rather slow start to the day meant that we missed the opening of the dam, (damn!) although on the bright side we got to see the fantastic views of Mount Tongariro on the Circular journey. When completed, we head to "The Craters of The Moon" geothermal walk site. We paid our entrance fee and were suddenly transported into some apocalyptic ...

Today we wake up to the wonderful view of Lake Taupo with the mighty Mount Tongariro a large volcano as the backdrop. Making the most of the free wifi and it being a special nieces birthday (well here anyway!) we have some FaceTime! From here we head to the local i site (tourist information) and formulate today's Adventure. We decide to check in to the local Top 10 site because it has the biggest jumping pillow in N Z ( see pics) why we don't have these back home...