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A New Zealand Road Trip - November 1992

Nosher and his dad head off from the Motel in Ferry Landing on a road trip around the North Island of New Zealand. We were originally scheduled to borrow Dad's brother's car, but he'd just pranged it round a tree the week before. So, instead, we get the use of cousin Steve's 3.7 litre Ford Falcon - a huge tank of a car with a bench for a front seat and a thirst for petrol. We drive down through Rotorua (Nosher gets a bit ill here thanks to the pervasive stink of sulphur in the air) and stay in a small B&B with its own volcanic-spring-fed spa (mmm, silky). From there, it's through Taupo and across the desert down to Palmerston North. After spending the night with some more rellies (and recovering from the Rotorua malaise) we head back up the west coast through Wanganui and right up to the Bay of Islands. Here, The Old Chap splashes out on a nice apartment for a couple of days, and we hang out before returning to The Coromandel.

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A brass band do their thing where we'd stopped for breakfast	New Zealand High Street	A Douglas DC-3 "Dakota" is pressed in to service as an advert
The big geyser at Rotorua	Tourists inspect a steaming lake	Volcanic spring
Nosher and the Rotorua geyser	A Maori cemetery, Rotorua	Steaming lake, just outside Rotorua
Geothermal power station	More steaming pipes	The Ford Falcon "tank" by Lake Taupo
A Maori gateway	Lake Taupo	A bunch of seagulls wait for something to happen
A game of bowls is underway at Lake Taupo	A Maori canoe	The "tank", up in the desert
Nosher's cousin, her bloke, The Old Chap and the cat, Zack	A catamaran at the Bay of Islands	Tall ship, Bay of Islands
Tin-roofed buildings, Bay of Islands	Chap roams around an outdoor painting exhibition	Nosher's dad feeds the wildlife
The view out of the apartment, Paihia	A lad messes around in the raging waterfall	A yacht mills around in the Bay of Islands
	Maori community building

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