Russell Day 3 – mostly waterfalls

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day 3 was mostly about waterfalls.  we got the car ferry out of Russell and drove up to KeriKeri via Haruru Falls

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we’d seen them last year but the water was much lower

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nice to see a rainbow in the spray too

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kezia took some of these pictures of our holiday by the way (like the one below).  they are the ones with _850_ in the filename if you are interested

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first things first and at KeriKeri i went to an excellent op shop (charity shop) and then we had some lunch

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after a mooch round the shops we drove over to the stone store and did the hour long walk to Rainbow Falls.  We saw some other dramatic waterfalls on the way and i think some of the pictures are mixed up.

apologies to any waterfall experts

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once we got to rainbow falls we visited the toilets (very welcome) and headed back to where we started.

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by then we were quite tired so had hot chips and some cake

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we popped in to the local supermarket to get me some more underpants as i’d failed to count how many days worth i would need when purchasing my emergency ones the day before.  (yes, i admit it, it was me who was the mysterious underpants forgetter)

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then we finally made it back to the holiday flat (via the ferry) for some holiday jigsawing

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