Saturday, June 18, 2011

Our last days spent in NZ

Black water rafting at Waitomo caves, The Black Abyss tour.

Our cavers for the day

The girls testing out the equipment before heading down the cave

Boys turn, John in the middle doing his best rock n roll

Emily descending into the darkness

John's turn. We had to repel down 35 meters in pitch black.

Getting ready to jump into the freezing cold water

John jumping off the ledge with his tube wraped around him

Emily cruising around in her tube, keeping her feet out of the water so the big eals do not bite

Sliding down the waterfall

Taking a break before we tackle the waterfall climbs

Emily emerging out of the caves into the forest

It was nice to get out of the caves and away from the eals and back to sunshine

Taking the leap of faith

The flying fox we  had to endure

The glow worms saliva trails, they use these to trap their prey and suck them up to be eaten.

One of multiple waterfalls we had to climb up

John in front of Mt Wanganui beach

Mt Wanganui and the Bay of Plenty


Emily on top of Mt Wanganui

Overlooking the Pacific

Tauranga in the background

Mt Wanganui

In the Coromandel


Emily engaging in the popular sport of "Planking"

At Cathedral cove


John in the Cathedral

Similar rock formation as the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick

Emily cooling off

Hot water beach, where thermal activity heats up the beach so much that you can dig your own personal hot tub on the beach.

The water was hot as. The hot sand heats up the water to a beautiful 40 degrees

Other people taking advantage of this thermal phenomenon

Emily strolling around the beach north of Auckland

Skating in Auckland

Chris, Emily, Luke and John. Teaching the NZ boys a little something about skating

Enjoying some Celtic music at the Bog. We had the band playing "Farewell to Nova Scotia" by the end of the night.

Mary (X grad) and Emily

Emily and the boys using nature as a beautiful backdrop for this shot



Hiking with Yvonne and her family




Navigating our way through the train tunnel

John finally gets the Valley Graphics hat to Regs friend in Auckland

What a journey.
Thank you all for following our travels, and we look forward to being home and visiting with you all. If anyone is thinking NZ for a vacation destination we would love to point you in the right direction. Thanks again to Robin and Tony and Yvonne and her family for taking us in and showing us tremendous hospitality, we would also  like to thank our family and friends who supported us throughout this journey, your support, phone calls, letters etc. kept us motivated and excited to return home.
All the best,
John and Emily

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