It was a bit rainy but not too much. Lucky we got our raincoats though.
We started the day walking the tunnels in Broken Hills. We didn’t think about it, but when we reached the first small tunnel we looked up and it was full of GIANT wetas (not sure if they were actually the giant ones, but they did look big) so we put our raincoat on just in case and passed by the tunnel. Collins drive is the longest one, around 500m of tunnel - luckily that one didn’t have wetas but we found some wild glowworms :D
We drove to Waihi’s free camping spot and we met a few new friends there: Oliver, Giacopo and Katerina. We didn’t plan to stay another night but Oliver invited us to a concert in town next day so we went for it, will drive back to Auckland next day.
We did the Karangahake walk in the morning, just to do all the tunnels in the area. It was cool but part of it was closed… We went to the concert and had some mexican food at night, it was fun! Alix drew the band in a napkin and they were gonna frame it 👩🏻🎨.
The start of the tunnels
There will be Wetas
The main drive
Danger
The tunnel
Gloworms net
Wont fall
Gloworms
Little lizzard
Another cool sunset
From the window
The gorge
Chilling
Green mussels
A nice concert