After a lovely, long, scenic drive down from Waitomo to National Park, the ballroom dancing trophy was ready to watch on as we tucked into some healthy, nutritious dinner at our lodge to set us up for our walk tomorrow. Yum LZ

You know that you are in a posh botanical gardens when the public toilets have floral displays!! LZ

Duck Attack We left Rotorua this morning to head to the Waitomo caves to see some glowworms and do a spot of black water rafting - mostly gentle tubing and wadding through some cool caves but with some jumping backward over waterfalls into the caves in the pitch black!! As we had a little time, we took a drive through the hyped, scenic town of Cambridge (nothing to write home about) and stopped in at the beautiful, extensive Hamilton Gardens. We settled down by...

Lights, Camera and ... Doing the sites around Rotorua, lead us down towards Lake Taipo today. First stop the impressively blue Huka Falls churning water at a rate of knots. Then onto the Aratiatia Rapids also known to be spectacular. They have been damned to provide hydroelectric power. However four times a day the water is released to recreate the spectacle. We heard the three warning bells as we had been warned and Dann was poised ready with the camera for t...

The world's largest garlic clove and the world's smallest wine glass. We won't be getting drunk tonight but also luckily we are safe from vampires too. Making full use our kitchen at the Rotorua Motel. The place is decorated like it's still the 70s but our lamb doesn't mind. Bon Appétit LZ & DW