The New Zealand trip was starting to wind down now so we couldn't move far from Auckland, which limited what we could do. It would have been lovely to make it to the far north but with time against us we wouldn't have been able to get there and back.

We decided to stop on the coast for our final few days and parked the camper up just outside Waihi Beach. The weather was lovely so we spent our time on the beach, with Tom even taking a swim in the freezing water. We walked along along the seafront which reminded us a lot of the UK. It was far more rugged here than the pristine beaches you see throughout south east Asia.

After our lazy day, we had an equally lazy evening putting off all of the sorting we had to do before returning the camper van in Auckland.