Today we picked up our rental car, which turns out to be a great big Holden Commodore, bright green, looks like an overgrown frog. They told us that they were upgrading us from a small cheap 4 cylinder Toyota and doing us a favour. Now I ask you, who needs a 3 litre V6 in NZ where petrol is $2 a litre? Anyhow, doesn't matter, we were just glad to be out and on the road, driving into the driving rain....
Didn't see much, although the coastline is right there next to the road. We stopped at Whangarie for lunch and had a bucket of prawns and a shrimp sandwich at a place called 'Love Mussel' right on the water. It stopped raining long enough for us to take a little stroll and look at the boats before heading north again.
We stopped again almost straight away to go and look at the Whangarie Falls, which are pretty good even if only 24 metres high.
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| Whangarie Falls, New Zealand |
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| Whangarie Falls, New Zealand |
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| Whangarie Falls, New Zealand |
Finally at 4pm we found our way into Kerikeri and our motel / cottage. It's nice enough and provided the rain (no wait, hail) stops we will get out and about and see a few things tomorrow.
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| Rent-a-car in the rain. Kerikeri New Zealand |
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