Waitomo - Taupo

As I had done the cave tour yesterday I had a lie in this morning whilst everyone else did the black water rafting. Black water rafting is basically just sitting on a inner tube and going through the caves, a few jumps off of waterfalls within the caves in the pitch black etc! http://www.blackwaterrafting.co.nz This didn't appeal to me as I like to see whats at the bottom of the water! So we boarded the bus at 1000 and saw some of the groups getting ready for the trip. They had to practice falling backwards with their rubber rings! As they hadn't gotten wet yet they were literally pushed in the freezing cold water! This was outside and it was spitting for rain and still cold - lovely!

After we watched this we all went for a wander through the Ruakiri Scenic Reserve, we came to a cave and everybody went in, I opted not to as I had seen loads of caves last night! I am so glad I didn't go in as there were massive spider things!

It started tipping it down so we ran back to the bus and drove to the Black Water Rafting place where we waited for the groups to come back - boring!

We then headed to Taupo, this was a long drive! We finally got there and stopped at Huka Falls, basically the water goes along this really narrow gully and gushes out at such a speed that it can keep you under for 1.5 days! It's not a high waterfall but the force is one of the strongest you're likely to encounter!

Skydiving was likely so we headed to the skydive centre where we all watched the video and those who weren't doing it left to go to our hostels. I later found out that it got cancelled because of the weather.

My hostel is the Tiki Lodge, it's very nice! There's a massive terrace out front that looks over lake Taupo and Tongariro National Park - it was too cloudy to see anything today!

I met a girl called Onya from Ireland and we went shopping for food and had dinner together then settled down for a night in fron t of the telly! They are a year behind in Eastenders here!