Our last day in New Zealand and guess what - the sky is a cloudless, wall to wall deep blue and its hot! All we have to do is to drive back to Auckland for an overnight stay so that we can get to the airport by 05.00hr tomorrow for our first of 2 flights to Australia. To get to Cairns we have to go via Brisbane.
It was such a pity that the weather hadn't been so good because the Bay of Islands was a beautiful place but at least we actually got to see the scenery on the way back. Steve rated the road as a 'prince' so all was going well until........
Remember the scenic detour to the oil refinery and housing estate we took on our journey to the Bay of Islands? Well we saw the signpost for it and recognised the junction where we had rejoined the main road and of course had a good laugh about our little adventure. However, it was less amusing when we saw the road which we had first taken which was only about 4km away from the other yet we had travelled approx 15km on the scenic drive! Duh, 15 versus 4 doesn't take brain of Britain to work out we'd made a cock up
Remember the scenic detour to the oil refinery and housing estate we took on our journey to the Bay of Islands? Well we saw the signpost for it and recognised the junction where we had rejoined the main road and of course had a good laugh about our little adventure. However, it was less amusing when we saw the road which we had first taken which was only about 4km away from the other yet we had travelled approx 15km on the scenic drive! Duh, 15 versus 4 doesn't take brain of Britain to work out we'd made a cock up
You all know Steve, never learns by his mistakes and we took yet another detour but this time I was in charge so with map in hand I guided us along a 'king' road where we found some beautiful coves and beaches. We also found the inevitable waterfall and because there was a structured pathway to the bottom decided to go look. When we got to the end of the path Steve couldn't resist the temptation to go for a dip and swam right underneath the cascading water.
Unfortunately by the time we reached Auckland it was rush hour and we got stuck in a traffic jam but eventually reached our overnight stay about 30km from the airport. Guess what though by this time the sun had disappeared and it was raining. I don't know about a nail in the coffin I think its probably another coffin as far as Steve is concerned, I'm not even going to ask him yet, I'll give it a few days.
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