Up, fed, watered and washed we set off at 8.30am for Waipoua Forest. The 18km road route passed through the heart of the forest and had several points where visitors could park up and walk a short distance to view the mighty Kauri trees. Below is some information I have plagiarised which explains in detail about the forest: Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to more than 50 metres tall, with trunk girths of up to 16 metres and living for more...

Our first night in the camper had been comfy and we slept well after being so knackered! Scott had been a bit cold as he doesn't have a sleeping bag - we'd bought some thick cotton sheets for him but they weren't really enough. We woke at 7am to the sun rising over the sea in the stunning location we had chosen to camp. We were at the Bay of Islands north of Auckland on North Island. After breakfast overlooking the little beach at our camp site we set off on a ha...

It was 5am by the time we passed through security and bio-security - I had my boots washed in a anti-bacterial solution. I bought a dongle for the laptop and we withdrew money. We had a bit of time to kill in the airport as nothing was open in the city. This gave me time to ponder our time travel flight. It was 1pm back in Chile, 4pm in the UK and 5am here. We had gone from being 3 hours behind the UK to 12 hours in front. We have essentially flown back through t...

...nothing exciting happened for the rest of the flight apart from the fact we time travelled and lost a whole day! This took a few hours to work out with our sleepy heads... before we knew it we landed at Auckland airport New Zealand - instead of being the 17th it was the 18th.