Just a quick entry as it was only a quick trip to the caves. We had a couple of couch surfers with us who had been to Abbey Caves (previous entry, different couch surfers!) a couple of times, and wanted to try somewhere different. It had been ages since Colin and I had been to Waipu Caves, so off we went. Waipu is a small settlement south of Whangarei. It was settled by Scots who had travelled from Scotland to Nova Scotia then on to NZ. Waipu is (more or less) on the coast, and the caves are about 20km inland. We took a less direct route through farming country, partly as its nicer than driving along SH1, but also to give Doris and Niki a bit of a tiki tour. We were expecting to be
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