Up bright and early at 7am to start the walk to Cathedral Cove. At the end of Hahei beach, the sign indicated this was a 70 minute walk, so straight back up to the car and whizzed around to the lookout point. The walk from there was a much more palatable 25 [...]
Up at 7:30am and to a local fruit shop to pick up a simple breakfast. We hit the road straight away and headed to the Orakei Korako thermal terraces. As it was still early we had the small ferry boat to ourselves and only spotted a few fellow visitors around the walkways. [...]
Overnight we had crossed the international dateline – meaning that the 16th of February lasted all of four hours. Unfortunately my camera didn’t know this – so with all likelihood dates will be confused at some point!
We arrived so early at Auckland airport that there was no gate available, meaning we were sat [...]