we packed the car and headed off. including in the packing list was pearl who we dropped off at her friend’s house on the way
we stopped at whangerei for lunch
then a further stop for a tour of a glow worm cave which was low budget but all the more excellent for that.
tonnes of really bright glowing worms, but no photos allowed so you’ll just have to imagine
we popped by Paihia on the way to book a trip for saturday then got the car ferry to Russell
esther had an avacodo smoothie
our holiday house was in an amazing location
here is the view from the windows / deck
quite a nice panorama
the girls went down to the beach to look at some old crabs legs
and i watched the native pigeons in the giant morton bay fig tree next door
then we wandered across in to russell town
and back as it was getting dark
we saw a rare weta running wild (below)
the waves were quite loud in the night