Hello our loved ones.
The last five days have been hectic! It feels more like five weeks. The amount of things we’ve done and people we’ve met has been a bit overwhelming. We finished the last blog just before we were to depart towards Cape Reinga, the most northern point of New Zealand. It was a brilliant day, full of activities including Sand boarding (flying down giant sand dunes of body boards) and hugging 800 year-old Kauri trees (to get good energy, the bus driver said). The bus driver we had was hilarious, filling our days with comedy and interesting stories, (he even sang a song for us in the end of the day, a maori song!) The 90 mile beach drive with the bus was impressive also. Beautiful long beach and Dave had the luck to find an oyster that he ate there on the beach…nice. Was a great day J
Next day was leaving day. But before we left we had a nice morning walk.Waking up as the sun rises is so refreshing and you just feel the urge for a fresh morning walk along the beach. I never had that in Stockholm unfortunately…great way to start the day!!
During our jearney back to Auckland we stopped at the Whangarei falls, which was a very impressive waterfall, all thanks to dave, he looked it up on the map:)!
Ok continuing to the next day.
The next day our kiwi experience bus adventure started!!! Exciting times. Didn’t really know what to expect…but that’s how we roll, taking everything as it comes. Our first stop was hot water beach, that’s a beach where you grab a shovel and then you dig yourself your own little pool in the sand. Some spots in the sand were incredibly hot…and you had to mix the hot water with the seawater. Quite a challenge to get the right temperature but sweet as when you got there in the end, which we didn’t as we had another activity on our schedule which was Kayaking to the cathedral cove….and WOW!!!! Sooo beautiful!!! It was amazing. Will put up the photos later.
Next day we went to Waitamo, the cave town. Me and dave, as the only people, took the adult activity and went for a guided walk in the caves instead of crazy cave extreme activities that the rest of our crazy fellow team members did. We wanted to but its just too expensive to do everything and there is SO MUCH you can do here…But just to see those glow worms was pretty coolJ In the evening everyone went to the locals pub, much fun!
And the next day, we went to Rotorua, the heart of the maouri culture…nice little town and we got to see the geysers. This earth is one amazing thing.
Now we are in TAUPO…and I’ve (dave) just done a sky dive 15000ft (4572metres, 4, 572,000mm) above Lake Taupo! It was so weird to be flying through the sky. Its hard to explain….but I want to do it again!!!
Now….the pub+rugby awaits!
Skal!:)
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