This day we got of the ship, ran into some friends and rented a taxi-van, 7 of us.(Vincent, Monica, Edmond, Sarah, Steph, Mom and myself.At the last minute V tells this 75 year old couple to come with us in an effort to reduce the price per person, they didn’t know what they were getting them selfs into I’m sure. We went to a famous arthur’s house which I forget the name of??? we went on a little nature trail hike in the bush behind the house to a little waterfall. Then we drove up the mountain for quite a while to a real waterfall, Papapapaitai Falls, which was just amazing. Then we were off again down the other side of the mountain, near the bottom the van started to smell and the breaks were smoking. So he pulled over at a nature trail that lead to nowhere and all we did was get hot and sticky and saw bush!!! So off again to try and find the mystical “Paradise Cove” that V just had to find so he asked the cabbie to go down this sketchy side road that no one wanted to go down, even the cabbie!! But he talked him into it and he went down, sure enough it goes to to the water and a gorgeous little beach. We walk down the beach and get to this beautiful cove surrounded by rocks, words can’t really describe how great it was, to us it was definitely “Paradise Cove”. So we are walking back to the van and I look behind and a guy with a machete is walking with V along the beach, he comes to the van and tells us he owns Paradise Cove and wants five dollars per person for going there!!! So we say no way cause there are no signs saying private beach and the cabbie and local machete guy start arguing and next thing you know he jumps in the front seat with V in the middle, we never heard him so quite!! The guy takes us to this house and the old man with us gets out to go to the bathroom and was gone for like fifteen minutes, so we were all getting a little worried but he made it back safe and we ended up paying twenty dollars for the beach, so that was alright. Next we drove along the coast where the tsunami hit not long ago and there was still a lot of destruction from it. Our last stop was a little restaurant right on the beach, we had the fish and chips which was local tuna and it was one of the best fish and chips we ever had!!! (but we hadn’t been to New Zealand yet!!) We ran into others off the ship and had a swim and just chilled out for a while. We should have left a little earlier because we were running a little late and our cabbie was driving like a madman on the way back to the ship, and we were all getting worried cause we were very far from the boat and then V starts yelling at the cabbie “David, how much longer, how much longer David ” and we are are like “shut up V and just let him drive”. We made it back with about 5 minutes to spare and we had never seen old people move as fast as those two did to get on that ship. We had so many great laughs that day and I’m laughing right now just writing about it!!!
Thanks for a great adventure V.
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