Long drive Rotorua to Kauri Coast

Set off early as we decided to do another long jump right up past Auckland to the North so that our last 3 days would be more relaxed. Generally pretty good roads and the sat nav came into its own negotiating all the spaghetti junctions around Auckland. Made a pit stop to replace the spare wheel as if another one went we'd be buggered! Made a bit of a mistake getting back on the motorway as we ended up going South again before we could u-turn and head North again. Tsk!

Eventually got to Kauri Forests so we could spend the day doing trails the next day. The end is nigh.

Karaoke in the park

Had a wander around town. There was some really bad singing from wafting from the band stand which the locals seemed to be flocking to.

When back to the camp site took advantage of the facilities and had a soak in the thermal pools for a bit. Nice to spend a day seeing sights and chilling :-)