We were quite eager to get on the road leaving Whenuakite, not because we didn’t like the place or enjoy our stay in Seabreeze Tourist Park, far from it, but we were quite eager to make our way to Waitomo and check out the famous caves! Along the way though we had to stop off in Hamilton, to swap over our Ford Focus for another car. Unfortunately the Focus had been quite noisy in its objection to driving up over mountain roads, around sharp bends and up inclines. It was whining and rattling underneath so we decided we should swap it over before whatever was wrong with it became the reason we were stranded up on a hillside far from civilisation. So we found the Hertz office with a little guidance from a local businessman, and
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