We left the Kauri Coast and had some 500km to our next destination, Hawke’s Bay. This took us across the centre of the North Island where we had done our two-week loop with Joanna, so we had already visited everything we were planning to see.
So a push South, through Auckland and on to Rays Rest at Miranda which was such a lovely camping spot, we stayed again, this time without the howling gale!


Next past Rotorua and Taupo … and I think I forgot to mention how smelly it is with the sulphurous gases in the air.
A photo stop at Waipunga Falls then on to a little DOC campsite by Glen Falls, sharing with just a couple of other campers.




Tomorrow Hawke’s Bay!