For once the weather forecast was right. We have had many days that were forecasted to be rainy which turned out sunny. But today they got it right and we woke up to rain. Yesterday we had tried to find rainy day interesting activities without much luck. So we have a leisurely morning. We washed our sheets because in this van they are brand new and scratchy. We left the camp ground around 10. We went into Rotorua and Rick got some breakfast (I had breakfast in the camper earlier). Then we drove to Te Puia which has a geothermal park and a Maori crafts school. We had done a geothermal park yesterday so we just wanted to be exposed to the Maori culture, but you couldn’t buy just a cultural ticket so we skipped it. We went into the gift shop and bought a Maori carved mask which will be our remembrance from the trip.
By now the rain had stopped and we decided to head to our next stop Ohope Beach. It was an hour and a half drive. We drove up and down hills, covered in what looked like a rain forest, lots of ferns and palms. We arrived at a beautiful beach. Our campsite has a lovely view of the ocean which was pretty turbulent today. We relaxed for a while and I went for a walk along the beach. It was quite windy and not that warm, it was probably about 62 or 63F.
That evening we had spaghetti for dinner.