Found some strawberries (very rare at this time of year) at a farm shop-pretty sure twas manifested as was saying I had a big craving for them earlier in the day ✨😍. Lush 2hr uphill wooded walk next to Wairapa gorge before 1 hr drive to Masterton. Big ol’ thunderstorm right above us just before eyelid closing time.ĭrove into Ashhurst town the next morn for internet signal…Harms heroically filled out all the immigration forms and we took about 4000 face pics all which were unusable to get a visa extension as our 3 months about to run out. Ben spoke to Rob about lowering Bab’s price as she’s not selling. Found a freecamp by a river for the night. Lunch then a 2 hour loop walk through forest. Chatted to a possum trapper who had traps set up in the hills to sell fur. Half hour drive spotting lots of different birds to a lil 30min woodland loop walk. Forest walk on way to Apiti camp for a cozy, rainy night. Was glad to drop him off a few miles down the road as my super sensitive preggers nose was not coping very well with his very close proximity. He had just tubed down a nearby river on a tractor inner tube with his big ol backpack for a few days. Picked up a hitchhiker in the rain next morn who was retracing the steps of a mans biography-Four corners of New Zealand in which he roams New Zealand by foot. Watching Netflix by 3.30pm 🤪….still chucking it down with rain. So go watch the Damn gates open upriver before driving into National park village which has a Kiwi camps hot showers for $2.
Raining the next day and I’m totes up for a Netflix day but Harms determined to do summink 🙈. Heather kindly let us do all our washing, fill up water and gave us fresh eggs and lemons before saying toodlepip n driving to Huka falls for the night.
#EZ PASS GODOCS FULL#
I slightly helped Heathers daughter Lexi cook a full English in the morn…bloody good grub round ere before going to chop a bit more wood. Felt really homely and comfortable as have known Heather for so many years. Drove to nearby woods for lunch/kip/walk before getting fed a full on 3 course meal at Heathers and facetiming me mum who hadn’t spoke to Heather in yonks. Got to see new born piglets and feel good to actually do sumink useful. Drove to Heathers friends’ farm in the morn to help them split wood with a hydraulic machine. Heather and her 2 twin girls joined us for fish and chips before we headed to our campspot by Taupo Lake. Found her mum Jeanettes place and cryed with laughter as she got more sloshed n Irish by the minute. Drove onto Taupo to meet up with Heather and Family (One of me Mums mates who used to live in England and who we’ve visited in NZ before). The day has come for our Hobbiton tour…incredibly excited….beauts sunny morn as we pay £45 each for the pleasure!! Way more than we’d normally spend on a non-essential but some things just have to be done🧙♂️! Pure magic to walk around the shire village with their cottage style gardens and smoking chimmneys in the rolling hills….sooooooo wish we could live here with all me fam and friends😍 ….ended the tour with a pie n ale/ginger beer at the the Green dragon inn which was like a wondeblah English country pub. Found a nice, busy freecamp by the river and gorge on chocolate before bed. In bed by 9pm…feel knackered after so much socializing….defo what we needed though! Harms had a lil engineery look at Chris’s new Tractor, showered before saying Ta-ra, driving to a waterfall for lunch. Next Day Chris and Magali show us the sites while the girls go to their new school which involves surfing as part of the curriculum🤩!! Watch a classic car show in Waihi, picnic on beach and walk over the cliffs to a secluded cove….lots of chatter….real treat having someone different to communicate with! Finish off the day with a drive to Bowentown viewpoint overlooking the harbour munching fish n chip supper.
Met James (brother in law) and his young family and had a wee look around their Avocado orchard before a delish bbq dinner. So good to see em all again and tell em I got something other than pies n cake growing in me gut🤩🐷. Slowly moved our fart filled butts from Port Albert camp and drove a few hours to Katikati parking up in Magali’s brother in laws driveway.
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