Who is that?

Who is this? Nobody knows!

Before leaving Gisborne we had a sweaty stroll up Titirangi to Cook's Plaza to get some great views over the bay and soak up the history. In the plaza stands this statue, it was supposed to be Captain Cook but it doesn't look anything like him and the uniform is all wrong so nobody knows who it really is, brilliant.


We jumped back in the van and headed along the coast to Napier. We enjoyed a walk around the town checking out the Art Deco architecture and enjoying a bit of swing courtesy of a free open air concert near the beach. Napier was a brilliant town that we wish we had spent more time in, on the day we visited as well as the concert there was a classic car rally and hoards of rugby fans in town.

Open air swing classics

Napier was rebuilt after a big earthquake and has some really nice architecture

The locals schools had knitted some nice wooly scarfs for the trees on the high street

We meet our old Australian friends again when we arrived at the camp site but they were not their usual selves after the Ireland vs Auz game.


The next morning we grabbed an early breakfast and popped into visit the National Aquarium of New Zealand. This was a really fun morning, we got to enjoy time with my favourite sea turtles and also check out a Kiwi. The Kiwi was amazing it was the size of a football and had a distinctive loping walk, it was like looking into the distant past.

Who can say no to a good coral reef

Pretty - but a pest in New Zealand