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Update 7 - wet and soggy
On to Waitomo, where on route we discovered that helicopter pilots make lousy navigators and also go green with car sickness, before having to request we stop and he drives...
Stunning rolling green countryside with amazing rock formations, went for a walk and then to the pub where we discovered made up G & T in a bottle, fan-bloody-tastic. Had the most lush pizza on earth, v.yummy.
The next morning up early and off to BLACK WATER RAFT, donned overly tight cold and clammy wetsuits (nice) and got picked on by our kiwi guides. We went to the river to do practice jumps, so we knew how to jump backwards off waterfalls into our rubber rings without braining ourselves, and they made muggins go first (I hate being first at the best of times, but especially when jumping backwards into icy water with a rubber ring on my arse and an audience...)
Then off to the caves (becky still going first, doh). Stunning. Just the most amazing experience ever, jumping off water falls was wicked and then floating effortlessly down these amazing caves. Best bit was turning off all the lights for a better view of the thousands of glow worms. Just out of this world.
So shower, soup, bagels and defrosted and off we were travelling south, stopping briefly to see an angora bunny farm. Expected to be greeted by happy very fluffy bunnies, instead were confronted by the hell of factory farmed bunnies and a very creepu woman who ran the place. Left quickly, very tempted to free bunnies, but the curse of the rabbit incident had already been set, our luck was changing for the worse...
(onimous pause)....
So somehow by sheer crap planning (or bunny curse - you decide) we ended up totally knackered at 8pm at Pukeville-on-sea. Words cannot describe how s***e the place was we stayed and very creepy, League of Gentleman stylie. Pukeville-on-sea also dire, couldn't find a bloody pub to drown our sorrows. So gross, slept fully clothed and left at the crack of dawn, sorry, I mean escaped....
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