Day 24 - Rotarua

Good day campers. We arrived in Rotarua around late morning and headed out to the shops and got the cheapest Maccy D fries ever! $2.90. I nearly had two. We left the others shopping while we headed off to see a bit more of the town itself and ended up at the old bathhouse which is now the museum. An interesting thing to note about Rotarua is other than it smells like an eggy fart, there are steam plumes all over the place from mud pools and hot water pools. They’re everywhere, you van often hear the gloopy sound a distance off and will usually find it fenced off and lots of Asian’s photographing them. We had a quick look around the museum shop as you had to pay to get in and no museum will be the same after our free museum in Wellington, and shot back to the backpackers. We’d decided that the 8 of us who were left on the trip would have a last meal together and as always we were involved in the shopping and co-ordinating the cooking. The cooking was no mean feat, two broccoli 8 peoples worth of potato carrots sweet potato’s and a pan with sausages leeks and gravy. It took about 5 or 6 pans to boil the veg and about 2 hours in total for the meal to be ready. We must have upset some people as we took up the Whole kitchen and used the chopping boards and every available pan. It was an Amazing feat of organisation. Good times.
We sat down and had a really nice meal and a great chat. Later on we headed on down to the pool and spent most of the night trying to empty the pool of water. Not literally… The pool is heated naturally by the towns Geo thermal activity and it was soo hot. With 8 people in the pool and lots of swimming dunking challenges it got very warm. A really nice night.

Kia Ora Guys,

David & Holly