Goodbye New Zealand

We’ve been rather quiet over the past week.

Our last few days in the camper were spent north of Auckland in the Bay of Islands.

We spent an afternoon visiting the Waitangi Treaty grounds, this is where the initial “agreement” between the British and many Maori groups was signed (or not signed). We learnt that the sneaky Brits slightly mistranslated the English version into Maori and there is still argument bargument over the words…..anyway after a tour, a Maori show (no that is not me), we decided to do the very English thing and play cricket….that’ll show’em…..

We dropped the camper in Auckland…and all enjoyed proper beds, carpet and sofas…..we also visited the Auckland Sky Tower…

A further day at the Auckland Museum to see some wholly underwhelming exhibits….a tree, some bananas and a pond at the Wintergardens proved more interesting.

Auckland Zoo is planned for Good Friday (hoping to get a few animals locked up) and then we fly to Hawaii, where we will arrive before we have departed (if you see what I mean)….so will go from being 12hrs ahead to 12hrs behind….

Good day or Good night….