We’d not been sure how to spend our last few days in the North Island. Stay local or drive off and see more tourist sights? We didn’t want to find that we’d exhausted ourselves trying to ‘tick off’ every possible sight, so opted for taking a two day surf trip on the neaby west coast.… Read more

So today we took a trip to the town of Rotorua. Famous for its geothermal lakes, bubbling mud pools and spurting geysers. It was only a short drive from Cambridge and we knew we were getting close as the unpleasant smell of Sulphur (like the worst stink bomb you’ve ever encountered) began to fill the… Read more

Before seeing the morning news, we headed out for surf and a bit of swimming to freshen up! Didn’t notice any big fish, but I was probably too pre-occupied on keeping warm as I’d opted to surf in only board shorts this morning rather than a wet suit and although I was at ‘Hot Water… Read more

Today we went to Hot Water Beach. And It really does have hot water! Totally bonkers! If you dig into the sand, the hole fills up with volcanically heated spring water! Dig your own hot-tub beach! At dusk you could see steam rising off the beach and some of the pools that we dug filled… Read more

Having started off the day relaxing at the house in Cambridge, we’d intended to have a full day of rest and see a bit more of the local scene. However, by lunch, we’d resorted our kit and checked the calander – it was then that we realised that we only have a week in the… Read more

The jungle explorers return! Back in civilisation now after a few days ‘in the bush’. We bid our farewells to our beach side paradise camp, packed up our belongings into our bulging rucksacks and set off into the jungle!  We had a fantastic trek through the bush/jungle on a 10km trek back to the civilisation… Read more