Eden Park feels like it is our home ground already. Roll on S4C. Locals very friendly, chatted for ages with one of guys in fan-zone. He lives in Auckland and only started today working in dock area - they are obviously planning for a very big night on Sunday. The fan-zone by us is always busy as are the streets around with street theatre, loads of people etc. It was full for NZ semi and people directed to a new area, Sunday promises to be even busier. Locals a...

Ship docked back at our "home" in fan-zone this morning. Looking forward to match tonight to get us back into rugby mood after the various tours. We seem to be doing the rounds of the Championship clubs, already chatted with Esher and Wuss supporters, met a couple from Derby who support Nottingham so talked out our 25 all draw last week.

Played 5 games of table tennis this morning after breakfast. We have played a lot as tables are at exit of buffet. Only other people around were out in open on top deck, nice and sunny. After about 40 minutes a guy watches us for a while and then presents us with prizes - torch keyrings. There was a table tennis competition (we checked when we got back to cabin and it shows up there). Anyway, as we were only ones there so we won. . . RWC 2011 TT Champions!

8 hour shore excersion today, but sounds like a lot of variety. Thermal springs, gondola and luge. Cannot wait to try luge, guy from Gullivers (our tour firm) said he had tried it - scary ride like in bob sleigh except you sit up and have handle bars to slow you down! So coach trip took us through Rotorua and first stop was a muddy lake which was boiling and giving off smelly steam, then off to Lady Knox Geyser. It erupts at 10.15am every day, so we got to see t...

We have been here 2 days, lot of talk about the grounded ship leaking oil and containers. We have seen some evidence as parts of beach closed as rocks need cleaned, but sandy parts already cleaned. We have seen nothing of ship as it is 22 kilometres out to sea on a reef. As we sailed out of port tonight we did not see it or any containers - expect we gave area a wide berth. Everyone here does not expect ship to do anything other than break up - apparently well ...