Another wonderful road trip around the North Island with Rosie. We started in Rotorua, wherw we stayed with her parents, then drove north and west until we reached the coast at Raglan. An amazing piece of coast and quite famous for the surfing (a competition was in progress at the time).

We stayed the first night ina camp ground as the local constables didn't take to kindly to the idea that we might be tenting on the sly in a prk or something. It was fine, gave us a base which we could leave unattended without getting paranoid. We spent the evening walking on the beach and drinking localy brewed beer.

From here we headed inland and then followd the coast, stopping every now and then to check out waterfalls (like the bridal veil falls show in a photo here). There were all sorts of great things to see, from rock formations to waterfalls and large trees. Eventually we hit the coast north of Taranaki. We camped the night in the back of the car, we should have been more prepared. I take full blame for this, I can get a bit wound up at the end of the day.

We were hanging out to see the mountain but it dind't show itself until we had passed it, a day later.