Today, efficiency was meant to be the name of the game but alas it was not meant to be. We planned on making an early ish departure from Taupo Bay and this, we managed to do, but here on out things went a little awry.
We decided on taking a rather direct route to Auckland down highway one, as we originally planned to do some sightseeing in Auckland city this afternoon.
Unfortunately, this didn’t end up happening as we encountered 2 motor vehicle accidents along the way. Both of these accidents had diversions around them and after some nifty map reading and directions from one of the traffic controllers we arrived in Auckland. Because of these divisions we ended up being about 80 km and an hour later then we expected.
Having arrived in Auckland we decided head directly to Bayswater which is the closest ferry terminal to our caravan park. Unfortunately, upon arrival we discovered that the ferries only ran on an hourly basis and the last one was five minutes before we arrived.
As it was getting late in the afternoon we decided to check in to our caravan park which thankfully is off any main roads and backs directly onto the water. We spent the afternoon taking in the bay, lapping up the sun and packing our bags for our voyage back home.
Zig-Zag New Zealand 