let’s see how this works out. i’ll gradually step you through the days of our holiday whilst attempting to keep up with the day to day life !
so, day 1: we left at 7am to avoid the Good Friday traffic. this worked really well as the roads were empty for all of the 3 hours it took to drive to Mount Manganui (including an in-car picnic breakfast)
we spent a good bit of the day climbing up the extinct volcano and learning about tombololoas (or something to do with sand).
once we’d made it back to ground level we had ice-creams, did a webcam geocache with the help of the exile who was sitting somewhere in the eastern end of the USA controlling a webcam above our heads on the east side of new zealand whilst esther and i sat underneath (photo here)
then we checked in to our lovely posh motel, went for a swim in a local natural hot salt water spa pool and watched paragliders jumping off the mount above us, then went for a walk to a funny little nearly island thing with a blow hole, then to bed.
here are some pictures of the girls i haven’t put on flickr
so there you go
you can see the rest of the pictures of the day as a slide show here
and you can read more about Mount Manganui here
