Our next place to visit on North Island was Rotorua. We left Napier on a cool but bright day and journeyed through lots of agricultural land, mainly growing fruit (apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums and grapes). There were far fewer campervans on the roads and we saw our first deer on this island on this leg of the trip - maybe there were more vegetarians in this neck of the woods? There were many more really pretty churches though and the landscape was gently undulating with hills rather than mountains, all seemingly covered with trees, trees, there were so many trees and, consequently, so many log lorries. We stopped for a comfort break in Taupo where scalding hot water from the underground activity trickled into the lake and attracted many wildfowl to the warmer waters, including the
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