Well, we woke up to bright sunshine (and stinky eggy smell) in Rotorua, and decided to grab a chopper to White Island. A very unique place that sits on the fault line of 2 tectonic plates. We were the only ones on the island, which is New Zealand’s only active marine volcano.

It sits 50km off the shore, and when we landed, it was like being on another planet… just weird.. Got some fantastic footage!! Just incredible…

After a hour of walking in and around the crater of the volcano, our pilot took us to Mount Tanawera which erupted in 1886 killing 140 people. Also pretty spectacular.

We then went from there to the Skyline, and zoomed down “the luge” 3 times… much fun had.

Now, we are camping again for the evening before trying to get a go of Zorbing tomorrow… and moving on!

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So, we woke up and travelled to Mokai Gravity Canyon where we decided to try out the Flying Fox… piece of cake really… alot less extreme than the Canyon Swing we did in Queenstown… but fun anyway… see the vid..

We then headed on our way to Rotorua where we shall stay the night before checking out the geysers etc… it stinks of eggs here….!!!

Not much to report on Day 8.

We woke up to dismal weather which meant no whale watching (BOOOOO!!!) so we headed North to Picton and caught the ferry to Wellington. The crossing was pretty rough I must say…. waves were big!!!

Anyway, a few hours later we arrived in Wellington, and as the weather was so bad we pushed on North 200kms or so to a town called Bulls…

That was it really… a day of travelling!