Okay, so here are a few last shots from our New Zealand trip. The jet boat ride really got my heart rate up. They are totally overpowered and only need 4 inches of water to operate in, so your skimming along at 50 mph in water as deep as a small puddle. Here's a video I shot of a spin.

A boat ride

Next stop, South Island. We drove the camper onto the ferry in Wellington for the 3 hour ride to Picton. The ferry was huge and I was surprised how many trucks, campers and cars they can stuff onto it. We arrived in Picton around lunch and hit the road for a place called Kaiteriteri.

Chronologically

It was a long vacation with a lot of photo's so I will try and blog our activities in order. But since your reading it on a blog, you'll probably read the last entry first, then scroll down and read this last anyhow.

After landing in Auckland at 6 am we were picked up by the camper rental company and taken to the depot to pick up our home for the next three weeks. We then drove to Taupo which is on a huge lake in the center of the North island. A fun fact someone told us about the lake is that it's the same size as the country of Singapore, which has a population of about 4 million, which is also the population of all of New Zealand. A lot of things there remind me of Europe. Great cafes, clean streets, little cars etc. We did some hikes to water falls, a trip to some erupting geysers, a dip in a hot spring, and a sightseeing flight over some volcanoe's. The whole area is thermal and you see steam coming out of the ground in the strangest places. The water Marianne is standing in was as hot as the hottest jaccuzi . It took some getting used to.