Paihai....again

So, back to Paihai....not much of a hardship though as it's a really nice place. We ended up staying for 5 nights which gave us plenty of time to catch up with Lesley between her shifts. We did a nice walk to the waterfall there, spent a morning Kayaking (ended up both getting sunburnt faces!!) a night at a nice restaurant and even squeezed in a couple of dives....I'm now upto 10 dives :-)

On our last night we decided to treat ourselves to a bed for the night at the backpackers hostel where Lesley was working, we had a BBQ and a few bottles of wine and it was all good, nice to sleep in a bed again, even if it was a single and Rich was in a different room.

So, Paihai done, Lesley caught up with the plan now is to try and get to the South island as quickly as possible, there are still a couple more things we want to do and places to see in the North. Mainly Napier and Wellington. En route to Napier though we'll be stopping at Taupo (where we did the skydiving) to do a walk that we chickened out of last time as we didn't think we'd be fit enough for!!! While we're there we're hoping to catch up with Mark and Krista who we met on our 2nd visit to Auckland and who are currently in Taupo....so, next stop Taupo, via Auckland though, got a few bits to do there and to see Rob and Judith again.

We've been a bit slack in the old photo taking department mainly because we've not done much, but we'll try and be a bit more snap happy from now on!!