The last day in Cairns ,Australia was a quite day after saying goodby to our new found family and the McCaigs. We wandered about town and visited the casino. At 6.pm it was time to head to the airport for our 9:pm flight . We were a bit early as upon our arrival we thought the airport was closed . There was
only one person in the whole airport and we thought it must have been evacuated for some unknow reason, but soon several people show up and an hour later a desk open up and we were quickly put through the customs and onto the plane for a 4.5 hr flight with a 3 hr time change. We got on a tour bus at 7:30 am and headed out on our way for a new but short adventure out to Cormandel ( the north east coast of NZ.) We had thought Aussie land was hilly but this area was so hilly and mountainous it put some places of the rockies to shame. We soon arrived at the hot water beach where we sat in small hand dug pond in the sand . Some places were so hot it would burn your butt or feet. in that beach area there was a crack in the earths surface where water flowed down a crack to the volcanic molten lava below where it was supper heated and force itself back to the surface as boiling water . It was actually pretty nifty. After some time there ,we continue on and spent the evening in Cormandel town. The next morning was a short trip 57K's to Thames were we saved the best part of the trip for last . We met the Clarkie"s and the place we'll stay for the next 5 nights
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