Taupo Garden Lodge

... Beej & Dan. Beej and Marck have been mates since high school and she was a candle lighter in our wedding. She and Dan were married in Santorini, Greece just after Jackson was born. They have a 13month old little guy named Oliver. Adult time here we come.

... of the door. Reno held the camcorder in his hand & told me to smile at the camera & before I knew it we were free falling through the air at around 200kph, although it really didn't seem that fast. It was weird! I thought I would get that falling feeling in my stomach, like when your on a roller-coaster, but it wasn't like that at all. It felt more like I was floating than falling. We were free falling for around ...

... herrscht begeben sich die 2 Herrn gleich noch mal und zwar zum 15. Mal an diesem Tag in die Luft. Normal sind sonst läppische 10-mal pro Tag. Alles in allem, ein unvergessliches Erlebnis!! Da ich mich ja schon an einen ständig überhitzten Motor gewöhnt hatte, holt das schwarze Biest, dem aufmerksamen Leser bereits gut bekannt, zu einem neuen Schlag aus. Dieses Mal ist der linke Vorderreifen dran. Ich dachte man könnte evtl. trotz ständigem ...

... 2009 Wir stehen auf und haben strahlend blauen Himmel :) Wir fahren zum 15 Minuten entfernten Anlegesteg von "Huka Falls River Cruise" und um 10.10 Uhr gehen wir an Bord. Mit Dave unserem Kapitaen sind wir etwa 10 Leute, ein gemuetliches kleines Ruendchen. Wir fahren den Waikato Fluss entlang und kommen letzlich bei den Huka Falls an, einem schoenen Wasserfall :)Dann geht es wieder zurueck. Nach der Flussfahrt fahren wir weiter nach ...

We had a day off from the bus today. We hired bikes from the hostel and cycled to Acacia Bay. Here we had a snack and then cycled back. All-in-all it took us about 3.5hrs. We had a big lunch at the Pub 'n' Grub then we went on the Barbary, a sailing ship once owned by Errol ...

We awoke from our night in the car to the sounds of cars driving into the parking lot of the rowing club. When you choose a place to sleep in the car, it's probably best to consider finding a place that won't be used early in the morning. A rowing club is probably not the place since they tend to row at the crack of dawn! After a stop at McDonalds for breakfast, a coffee and a chance to warm up, we headed back into Wellington to trade out the rental ...

... because it was too windy. At last at 11am we got the call that we were good to go and that the limo would be there in minutes. This was the point of no return - I couldn't bottle out now ... On the way we all signed our disclaimers a nervous hush pervading the limo, punctuated by the odd bit of gallows humour ... Once there I got zipped into my dive suite and strapped into my harness. My dive buddy Mac took me for my before photos which were done with travelling companion ...

We woke up in our little cabin fairly early, and promptly went back to bed. This pattern repeated itself a few times before the maid walked past and yelled at us, asking if we had paid for another night. We got the hint.

A short while later we'd packed and Katie had called a 'geothermal park & ...

... she turned the job down though, fruit picking would be much more of an experience and anyway who wants to stay in one place for the whole summer?



The activity for Taupo was Rock'n'Ropes high ropes course. 2.5 hours spent climbing up poles like monkeys and jumping on trapezes. 15 metres feels like very high up. The day was excellent and Julien was very excited about all the ...