Halloween hit the house with an awesome fancy-dress party, I suffered some memory loss - I guess the brain cells just can't regenerate as quick as they used to ;0
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| Chucky & Carrie |
We finished our time in Christchurch with a extravagant slap-up meal with Steve and Siobhan. We ordered EVERYTHING! Even the roast carvery board!
Next leg of the trip - back in a different camper...
...up to Auckland via Kaikoura along the coastline again littered with penguins, seals and rolling surf. First stop on the north island was Wellington to catch a better glimpse of the capital now the rugby mania has ended, then up to the Tongariro national park to do the most famous of the Great Walks. Hiking across a volcanic landscape we climbed up the ridge of Mount Tongariro and across to the crater's edge of Mount Ngaruhoe - absolutely spectacular.
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| 360degree view of the southern crater, at the right end you can just make out James |
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| we made it up the first mountain.......one to go! |
In my little green trainers I was somewhat unprepared for the snow in the crater so James very manly carried me across the snow and slush so I didn't get freezing wet feet. "What a guy!" said a passer hiker. We were hella lucky with the weather as it rained before and after continuously. So the gale-force wind we got was quite a welcome change from the rain. We were both so exhasted after the climb that we stayed horizontal for the afternoon and evening, as fighting the wind had zapped all our strength.
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| emerald lakes |
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