With just two days left of Susan’s visit we drove from Taupo to Tauranga in the hopes of seeing Mount Manganui. When we arrived the weather was awful so instead we had a bite of lunch and went on to Te Puna and met up with some of my new found fifth cousins; a son of Margaret from Hamilton, Tracey, and his family. Tracey has been researching his genealogy and has gathered a lot of information already and was delighted to meet us to hear about more of his old relations. After giving him as much information as we had, we left with promises to email him with family trees and other details we have back at home.
That night we stayed in a campsite in Bowentown and made the most of their spa the next morning before going on to see the goldmine in Waihi. On our way to Paeroa we stopped in the Karangahake Gorge and went for a walk alongside the river and through a 1km long former rail tunnel. In Paeroa we stopped and had a look at one of the giant drinks bottles advertising the famous New Zealand drink Lemon & Paeroa while a couple more new tyres were put on the van. Then it was time to get back up to Auckland for dinner before dropping Susan to the airport for her flight home.
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