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| Black water rafting at Waitomo caves, The Black Abyss tour. |
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| Our cavers for the day |
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| The girls testing out the equipment before heading down the cave |
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| Boys turn, John in the middle doing his best rock n roll |
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| Emily descending into the darkness |
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| John's turn. We had to repel down 35 meters in pitch black. |
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| Getting ready to jump into the freezing cold water |
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| John jumping off the ledge with his tube wraped around him |
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| Emily cruising around in her tube, keeping her feet out of the water so the big eals do not bite |
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| Sliding down the waterfall |
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| Taking a break before we tackle the waterfall climbs |
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| Emily emerging out of the caves into the forest |
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| It was nice to get out of the caves and away from the eals and back to sunshine |
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| Taking the leap of faith |
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| The flying fox we had to endure |
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| The glow worms saliva trails, they use these to trap their prey and suck them up to be eaten. |
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| One of multiple waterfalls we had to climb up |
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| John in front of Mt Wanganui beach |
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| Mt Wanganui and the Bay of Plenty |
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| Emily on top of Mt Wanganui |
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| Overlooking the Pacific |
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| Tauranga in the background |
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| Mt Wanganui |
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| In the Coromandel |
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| Emily engaging in the popular sport of "Planking" |
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| At Cathedral cove |
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| John in the Cathedral |
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| Similar rock formation as the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick |
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| Emily cooling off |
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| Hot water beach, where thermal activity heats up the beach so much that you can dig your own personal hot tub on the beach. |
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| The water was hot as. The hot sand heats up the water to a beautiful 40 degrees |
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| Other people taking advantage of this thermal phenomenon |
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| Emily strolling around the beach north of Auckland |
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| Skating in Auckland |
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| Chris, Emily, Luke and John. Teaching the NZ boys a little something about skating |
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| Enjoying some Celtic music at the Bog. We had the band playing "Farewell to Nova Scotia" by the end of the night. |
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| Mary (X grad) and Emily |
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| Emily and the boys using nature as a beautiful backdrop for this shot |
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| Hiking with Yvonne and her family |
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| Navigating our way through the train tunnel |
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| 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
