There isn't much to blog about today. And when I say there isn't much, I mean there's nothing. We were on the bus from 8am until 2.30pm, with one stop for a quick cup of tea. There was only about 15 of us on the bus today as well so it was painfully quiet. Taupo is also incredibly boring when we aren't skydiving, doing a booze cruise or walking for 6 hours of the day! We have no idea what to do for the rest of the day but we've decided to go for some drinks la...

We were up disgustingly early today. Disgustingly. To go for a 6 hour walk. What was I thinking?! Arriving at the start of the walk at 7am, we began our day more than a little begrudgingly, wondering who tricked us into thinking this would be a good idea. Even worse, within the first hour of walking, my famous DofE injuries had made themselves known once again. This meant the option to add on another 2 hours to climb Mount Doom was completely out of the...

We were gutted to be leaving Rotorua and the Maori village, and with the weather very clouded over we weren't optimistic about being able to skydive today. Our first stop in the morning was Te Puia, a thermal park with geysers, boiling mud and a kiwi bird house. We thought paying $30 for this would be better than doing an hour walk, so we headed in with high expectations, excited to finally see a kiwi bird! However, our enthusiasm quickly went as we had...