Friday Feb 2 - We love Taupo!

What a wild night! Cyclone Fehi roared all night but even that wasn’t enough to keep us from a super night’s sleep.  There was a lot of mayhem all around NZ this morning but we escaped it all.

We started out with a lake walk past black swans and thermal inlets 3 km into town.

These are not flip flops - they are ‘jandals’.

We hid out from a rainstorm with our 10 millionth excellent flat white coffee and in the afternoon headed up a hiking trail to spectacular Huka Falls.

Success! I finally managed to replace the NZ baseball cap that I lost paddleboarding in Lake Okanagan.  (That was one of my prized possessions Andy and I was gutted when I lost it!)

Tired but happy, guess how we celebrated?

With the excellent Pinot Noir we bought in Hawkes Bay.