OK, so I am a little behind. Two days ago I escaped Auckland for the day and headed out to Piha, a little surfing community on the west coast. It is where the film 'The Piano' was filmed. I caught a shuttle out with two others, both from England. Liz was heading out to hike and Adam was going to surf. Anyways, our driver was super nice and drove Liz and I around to show us where to take some short hikes. We did one up to a look out over the beach (which has black sand) and we did another up to a waterfall that we could go swimming at the bottom. It was gorgeous! Anyways, we hung out at the beach for
awhile and overall I had a wonderful day. The surroundings were beautiful. It reminded me a lot of the rainforest at the aquarium, but it was wonderful to know that there was no possibility of running into a snake, looked like prime snake habitat, but nope, NZ has no snakes! Anyways, then yesterday I got out of Auckland officially (thank goodness). I arrived in Taupo around 3. Lake Taupo is NZ's largest lake. It is actually the crater of a volcano (thought to be the largest eruption the earth has witnessed, which is pretty cool. It is surrounded by lots of other volcanoes including the mountain from Lord of the Rings. Anyways, not much got done yesterday, we (Francis, Nicole and Fia) went out to an Irish Pub and Francis and I beat some Kiwi's at pool, which was pretty amazing (Mark and Marissa - I sunk the last 3 balls in a row, it was amazing, you would
have been impressed). Today was another great NZ day. I went kayaking with a couple from Sydney and our guide who was from DC. We kayaked out to some Maori carvings in the stone on Lake Taupo. My upper body is already feeling it. Anyways, I have to find a place that I can actually get my pictures off my camera and then I will put some up. Talk to you all soon
OK, so I am a little behind. Two days ago I escaped Auckland for the day and headed out to Piha, a little surfing community on the west coast. It is where the film 'The Piano' was filmed. I caught a shuttle out with two others, both from England. Liz was heading out to hike and Adam was going to surf. Anyways, our driver was super nice and drove Liz and I around to show us where to take some short hikes. We did one up to a look out over the beach (which has black sand) and we did another up to a waterfall that we could go swimming at the bottom. It was gorgeous! Anyways, we hung out at the beach for
awhile and overall I had a wonderful day. The surroundings were beautiful. It reminded me a lot of the rainforest at the aquarium, but it was wonderful to know that there was no possibility of running into a snake, looked like prime snake habitat, but nope, NZ has no snakes! Anyways, then yesterday I got out of Auckland officially (thank goodness). I arrived in Taupo around 3. Lake Taupo is NZ's largest lake. It is actually the crater of a volcano (thought to be the largest eruption the earth has witnessed, which is pretty cool. It is surrounded by lots of other volcanoes including the mountain from Lord of the Rings. Anyways, not much got done yesterday, we (Francis, Nicole and Fia) went out to an Irish Pub and Francis and I beat some Kiwi's at pool, which was pretty amazing (Mark and Marissa - I sunk the last 3 balls in a row, it was amazing, you would
have been impressed). Today was another great NZ day. I went kayaking with a couple from Sydney and our guide who was from DC. We kayaked out to some Maori carvings in the stone on Lake Taupo. My upper body is already feeling it. Anyways, I have to find a place that I can actually get my pictures off my camera and then I will put some up. Talk to you all soon
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