Lindenhof North Island

... at people on their way up as they are huffing and puffing with the great advantage that they have no idea how loud your breathing was or how red your face got on your way up.
Next stop: the beach. It's actually quite complicated going to the beach on your own if you're inclined to swim. There are no lockers, but you can't very well leave you stuff unattended on the beach. You'd like to lay in the sun for a while, but how on earth are you supposed to spread an even layer of ...

... Aaron but I must say he enjoyed it and I had to carry him on my shoulders a third of the way from the top. The view is magnificient from the top.

http://www.virtualoceania.n et/newzealand/photos/cities/tauranga/06 6j.shtml

You can see a few islands from the top, including Mayor Island and White Island which is an active ...

... I didn't actually stand up... but I was really really close a few times. A few more tries and I'm sure I'll be out there with the pros.. okay, maybe not that far, but I should at least be able to ride a few waves. I woke up the next morning pretty sore. I took a bit of a beating from the ocean. It's amazing how powerful the waves are and how easily you can get thrown around. No worries mom, just a few broken ribs ...

... from the Mount to Tauranga, just to get a better understanding of where I was... bad idea. I seriously mis-calculated the distance and ended up walking about 12K, which I discovered was somewhere around 8 miles. Three hours later I arrived into town and was so tired that I spent 30 minutes sitting on bench and then hopped the next bus back to my accommodations.

However, after a shower I was ready to meet the rest of ...

... br>inzwischen haben wir unser auto gekauft und sind voll happy damit....und so können wir auch viel flexibler unterwegs und mobil sein. Kurz vor dem Labour weekend (verlängertes WE) mussten wir nochmals die autosuche intensivieren,sodass wir am WE verreisen konnten...und haben dann beim 3.besichtigten Auto zugeschlagen... scheint bis jetzt tiptop zu sein und von allen seiten hören wir, dass wir offenbar ein gutes schnäppchen gemacht hätten ...

... don´t want to miss out on anything-and see the Gemstone Bay as well.

A Picknick on the beach gives us back some strength (and some juice) and well fed we start the journey to Mount Manganoui where we end up in a shabby, dirty **** place where people smoke to much. But just for the night it might as well do. The morning starts with some exercise by ...

... he called us "The Tribe of Many Nations". Then he had us practice a song that we had to sing to the Mitai chief later that night. Before dinner we went to a number of sites and activities. First we went to see our dinner cooking in the traditional dinner (hangi) cooking method. Then we went down a beautiful wooded path to the river and watched the warriors and the real ...

... is filled with the eggy odour of hydrogen sulphide, someone light a match! The pools that surround Rotorua consantly billow out this smell as they bubble and blurt with geothermal heat. This of course makes it a little tricky to run, hanging clouds wafting across your path removing the oh so important O2 at vital moments after half an hour I am stood back outside the holiday park watching th steam rise from the pools on the far side of the golf course that hugs Pukuatua Street. Finding ...

... warriors can be quite intimidating and it can be speculated that the this might be one of the reasons why the first Dutch explorer to discover NZ, Abel Tasman, decided not to explore it further and move on to more friendly territories after only a brief encounter with the locals. G's other hypothesis though is that he might have seen the prices at the local tour-operators and left in horror; hard to prove that theory though ;-) Talking about rugby, the All ...

... on the rocks. 3) 6-7 Potato Sacks - Any type of cloth styled potato or sugar sacks (If you have access to Banana leaves, use them as well. 4) White Bed Sheets - Preferable mutton cloth but bed sheets will do. 5) Water Hose 6) 3 Shovels 7) 2 Steel Garden Rakes 8) 44 gal Drum - This is used to soak the sacks overnight 9) Tin Foil - Use this to hold food that may easily slip through the crates. 10) Oven Bags 11) Newspaper 12) Firewood - A variety of small to large slow burning ...