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The Te Whanganui-A-Hei Marine Reserve is a few miles North of Hot Water Beach, so it was our next port of call. Jess was particularly excited, because Gemstone Bay is supposed to be one of the best pl..

There are various walking tracks in McLaren Falls Park, so we headed off for a viewing point, before walking down into the valley to see another waterfall. The viewing point was beautiful – the f..

Jess and I nearly didn’t go on the glow worm walk at McLaren Falls – it was twilight, not properly dark, so we didn’t think we’d see anything. But, it’s one of the major attractions of McLaren Fa..

On our way to Lake Taupo and Turangi, we stopped off at Huka Falls, which is a short walk from the car park.  It was a stiflingly hot walk, which we actually cut short because it was really quite..

Our day began at 6am with an actual alarm, to make sure we woke up on time.  We’d packed our bags the night before, so didn’t need to do much before heading off to the shuttle collection point. I..

Just before we finished the Alpine Crossing, on one of the steps down, Jess went over on her ankle.