Last night I stayed at the Lappers house :D which was great, having not seen them for 12 years at least ... They haven't changed :) Today has been a long and very packed day! I started my Kiwi experience bus tour, we're a small group and get on really well :) We went to 'pak n save' which has the biggest gluten free bread section I have ever seen!!! We stopped at the most gorgeous viewpoint then walked down a cliff path to the third neighbouring bay called Cath...

I forgot to mention, yesterday at the campsite was a giant bouncy pillow... Amazing fun!! It was basically an adults bouncy castle, it had us amused for a good hour! It was so tiring though, and we discovered repeatedly that I can no longer do a front flip :-( today I am so so sore!!! We left early this morning and headed back to hot water beach but unfortunately the tide was still quite high. After picking up some groceries we went to the gold mines and walked...

I have arrived in New Zealand :-D The 3rd stage of my Trip Yesterday I took a local bus and ventured out of Auckland to walk and around One Tree Hill, which is the summit and crater of two volcanoes that erupted many years ago. The place has a very strong Maori history. Unfortunately there is currently no tree on the hill at the moment as it was cut down in 2006 as it was deemed unsafe but they do plan to plant another soon. There was lots of sheep and baby la...