Rob & I drove off to Wellington today to drop off the car a bit early while Mandy & Kerri went shopping. As we dropped off the car early, we got an $85 NZD discount on the hire – nice. Bec met us at the Ferry Terminal and we all drove back to the Bach for a late lunch. While in Wellington, we got the Internet sorted. It seems that I used HALF of my $ amount on the SIM while getting it working in Melbourne for about 2 x 30 second connections. Yikes! International roaming is VERY expensive.
Foxton (a nearby town) has built a replica and working Dutch windmill which Rob was keen to tell us about. The day before he said that could have a look tomorrow or take a photo. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to do either. When the time came today, we went and had a look and from an engineering point of view, it was fascinating. Massive timbers, simple but clever mechanics. It was pretty impressive overall. 
We then went to the Waitarere forest area to see where Golum had crawled and another walk along the beach. Today there were thousands of stingers that had washed up making walking in thongs (sorry that should read jandles) a risky business. What I couldn’t get over was all the driftwood that has washed up. Go to a beach in Melbourne and you might see the odd tree branch washed onto the sand. Here there are complete trees, massive stumps, and hundreds of ‘odd tree branches’ – quite amazing.
Back to the Bach for a yummy dinner (3 helpings of sweets for me) and then a game of “Imaginiff” which was heaps of fun.
Tomorrow we are off to Wellington via some unpronounceable places which should be good.
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