Just a very quick entry tonight because it’s a long weekend (or, more truthfully there was a lot of twisty turny driving today and my brain hurts).
It rained all night, but yet again we woke to a clear bright morning. After breakfast we headed off to the city to an amazing hardware store, easily the size of a large Home Depot. It carried just about anything you would ever want for construction; in addition it also housed a motorbike museum and a few cars and trucks.
After that we headed along the coast road stopping at numerous lookouts and headlands. Todays scenery was much more mundane, but still quite spectacular. Also along the route were a number of waterfalls, and we got our daily exercise by trudging downhill to a waterfall, remember what goes down must come back up, wobbly legs by the time we got back to the car.
For the first time since we left Auckland we found a motorway (4 lane divided limited access highway), mind you it was only 5k long!
We checked into the hotel to be greeted with those great words, Mr Winch, we are able to upgrade your room for your 2 night stay; memories of the good old days.