Quality Inn Sails Taupo
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Birthday dinner in Taupo
21ST FEBRUARY 2011 - (Continued). We check in our motel in Lake Taupo which is lovely and its a unit with kitchen so got to cook all those kumaras and corn. Its a nice change and think well its my birthday and I need sleep. We go to a supermarket and buy some food for next few days. We chill out for a while and then go out for my birthday …
Earthquake in Christchurch - We are ok!
22ND FEBRUARY 2011 - This morning felt a bit more human and had some needed sleep. Its very overcast outside today. I jump on the internet and update my facebook status to say: “Thank you to everyone who remembered my birthday. Material things are so meaningless when you don't have your beautiful daughter saying "Happy Birthday Mummy" and …
Going South...
On Monday we packed up and headed off without booking accomodation just to see how far we could go. We took about a 2 hour trip through the centre of North Island, the countryside is extremely green, I suppose a volcanic green. The hills are all conical giving the place a special fairlylike quality - you can understand why Peter Jackson filmed The …
Rotorua to Taupo
We spent the morning in Rotorua, walking around Kuirau Park where hot springs had suddenly appeared early last century. There was bubbling mud and lots of steaming areas. We spent some time there then had coffee and drove to St. Faith's Maori church and meeting house. The church was decorated in Maori style and had a window overlooking the lake …
Let it Rain!
... 2 trout to a local restaurant that will cook them for you, but since we only brought in one, we took it to the butcher shop to have smoked.
Our captain Dave, perhaps feeling a little guilty for letting Mike’s fish slip away, invited us to come back an hour later to go on a free lake tour on his speed boat. He bought an Australian Navy vessel last summer, the same kind that the Seal teams use in the US Navy, ...