We woke up at 07:30 and Kim had to go to work for an hour.
Once Kim was done with work, she got home and got ready for the rest of the day.
Curtis’ family were meeting us at our place. Once they arrived, we chucked our bags in the taxi and then got ourselves into the taxi and drove to near the airport to pickup a campervan!
After having to wait for over an hour, we finally got our campervan. We were given a quick tour and provided information then we were off! Gareth drove all day, which was very kind of him.
We got onto the motorway and headed towards Taupo for our first stop.
We had to stop a little earlier then planned as we needed to get some food.
We stopped in a small town called Cambridge. We just stopped at a BP garage and got some food. We had sandwiches and pies as well as a drink and some coffee!
After being well fuelled up, we drove on to Taupo.
Once we got to Taupo, we went straight to Huka Falls. These are some beautiful waterfalls.
Once we left here, we made our way towards our final destination of the day, Palmerston North.
This leg of the trip was absolutely beautiful! We had mountains, alpaca, sheep, cows and snow to look at!
Once we got into the mountains, the temperature dropped down to 0.5°C! Due to this, everyone in the back got under blankets to keep warm.
As it became dark, the sleet came and then so did the snow! Luckily, this ended fairly quickly, but we were still driving through the middle of no where in the mountains.
Kim took over driving for the last hour or so.
At 20:30 we arrived in Palmerston North after we’d been driving since about 12:00!
We planned to stay at a campervan site and make a spaghetti bolognese…which didn’t happen!
The website said it closed at 21:00 but we got there at 20:30 and it was closed! No one was answering the phone either so we had to figure out what to do.
We found a hotel/motel to stay in and went to their restaurant for a quick bit to eat before sleeping!
We have an early start tomorrow and a little bit more driving!
Poroporoaki!
– Mr & Mrs Hale
Mr & Mrs Hale 