Day 132 - Paihia, New Zealand

Day 132 – 18th October 2005 +12:00 GMT Total Miles 26867

Had breakfast at the hostel then Reece and I decided to go on a bike ride to Haruru Falls, the hostel has free mountain bikes so we picked a couple up and set out on the ride, after we had ridden 3 Km along the waterfront we reached Paihia golf course which had a sign 5km to Haruru Falls, unfortunately it was mostly up hill, well seemed it anyway.


View of Paihia

The road had turned to gravel and after a couple of photo stops we got to the falls, they were no so large but still a pleasant sight. Only stopped for 5 minutes and carried on a different way back to the hostel.


Haruru Falls


Haruru Falls


Haruru Falls

We met up with Jill and went across the road for a beer and a light snack, then it was back to the hostel to relax for a couple of hours. Reece and I then had a game of tennis this time he won although it was very close 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 it was one set all and 4 games all at one point. Jill and I then watched the film “Sideways” then Reece and I went for a beer and I got some pizza’s to take back for Jill, we watched TV for a while before calling it a night.