Bus Tour

Right so, the bus tour... We jumped on the bus at 7:30am in auckland, and met our fellow bussers and our driver Lucky (her parents were hippies). From auckland we hot footed it to the north coast to a place called hot water beach, which suprisingly is a beach with hot water. Geothermal vents bubble up through the sand and if you dig a hole in the beach it will fill with nice warm water, when the tide came in the mixture of refreshing cold waves and sitting in hot water was very nice. That evening we all chipped in $10 and Lucky cooked us a huge BBQ, homemade dips, garlic breads, steak, sausage, the works!

The next morning we woke early to watch the sunrise, then set off on the bus at 8:00am to a place called Raglan. One of the worlds top surf sites, there we rented boards and had an afternoon of surfing, which was cool, and i am definately improving, by the time i hit LA i want to be good. Played some touch rugby on the beach with some kiwis then back to the hostel for fish n chips.

Set off at 8:00am again the next morning and headed to Waitomo, where we went caving, abseiled down a waterfall and crawled through caverns lined with glowworms, that was really cool. In the afternoon/evening we headed to a maori tribe and had a cultural evening, we learnt the haka, ate maori food and had a fire on the beach.

Bus at 8:00am this morning and we headed to where i am now, Rotorua, where we went white water rafting this morning. We got 5lads together and told the guide we wanted to go extreme, and he delivered the goods. The raft flipped over twice, and we went over a 7m waterfall, the biggest rafting drop in the world..... Backwards, it was amazing. We bought the CD of photos so they will all be on facebook later.

So that brings you up to date, this afternoon we are gonna chill in Rotorua, we are staying here for 2nights then catching the next bus to continue the tour. Tomorrow I think we are gonna check out the hot pool and geysers and other such geothermal things. Best wishes, blog soon.

Rich