We headed into Hahei town and I was pleased to finally buy some earrings.\u00a0 I\u00b4d been earringless since leaving a bag full of them in Sydney, well other than the pair I broke in Asia and have been carrying round ever since in the vain hope that someone can fix them that is.<\/p>\n
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Having sorted out my jewellery situation we drove to Thames where we ate prior to heading to the butterfly house.\u00a0 The place was amazing with thousands of butterflies from around the World.\u00a0 Amongst my favourites were the luminous blue butterflies and a crazily bright green and black butterfly.\u00a0 As well as native butterflies, apparently a lot of the butterflies are imported from other places, such as South America, in their chrysalis phases.<\/p>\n
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After the butterfly house we headed to “Water World” which was basically a park with various water-based nodels and activities on offer.\u00a0 The place was great if very zany.\u00a0 I managed to break my nail in a giant hamster wheel and also to completely soak Lance with a water cannon.\u00a0 My boat, “007” also beat his (I forget the name, it was probably doofus or something) rather convincingly, although he claimed I cheated.\u00a0 The place had a cafe attached and I tried some amazing ice cream with flavours like hokey-pokey which I have no idea why you can\u00b4t get in England.\u00a0 It was this awesome ice-cream with honey-cone pieces.\u00a0 We also got a rocky road which I haven\u00b4t seen in England.\u00a0 It\u00b4s basically a chocolate type bar with marshmallows in\u00a0This one had a biscuit base and a layer of raspberry jam in though.\u00a0 Mmmmmm….well I had done my sit-ups, honest gov!<\/p>\n
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We headed to Whitianga and then on the most amazing coastal road up from Thames.\u00a0 There were thousands of nesting birds.\u00a0 Not being a twitcher, I\u00b4m afraid that I\u00b4m unable to elaborate here.\u00a0 They were cool though and there were lots of them.\u00a0 Ooooh how profound!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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