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Posted on Friday February 12th 2010 at 2:46 p.m.
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Alright, so we loaded the truck with the bare minimal - gas cooker, tent, wettie and the Mrs and head to a Napier beach to camp for the night. On route, plan changed, "Let's head go to the snow in Taupo!"..... okay? (No shoes, no clothes, no nasink!)
A quick stop at Stingas for a brief surf and to say G'day to my seal friends, before arriving in Taupo. After being put off by the brisk white snow capped volcanoes (and being 5pm in the arvo - smart move), changed minds again and busted onto the new destination, Ruapuke Raglan.
9.30pm arrives and so do we at Ruapuke. The scene is set. Pitch black not a light insight, except for the lightning thrashing about overhead to aid us in setting our parachute of a tent up in the biggest gale-force storm Raglan had seen in 10 years! After forgetting the tent pegs, fortknox was created like a giant string maze strewn around trees and car bumpers. Like drowned frozen rats, we slept in our flying tent and awoke the next morning.
Sunday 7am. Sunny. Spend the next couple of hours dismantling the string from bumper to branch. Pack up tent. Mish to Whale Bay and enter an appalling state of brown water mess only to give up on it and head home.
Maybe next time we should plan ahead and check out a weather map or two!
Ryan
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