Monies

Everything in New Zealand is expensive! For example a snickers bar is $2, which I personally find quite depressing. More important things are also ridiculously expensive like seeing the Rotorua geysers for $50. I’ve decided that the things I want to spend my money on are the things that I haven’t done before and is something that I have only seen in New Zealand.

That decision lead to the two things I did today. Instead of paying $50 to see the geysers up close I went on a hike into the hills behind the geysers and sat up there and watched the big geyser go off. The trail was through the redwood forest again which was really nice and it was great to be able to see the whole city.

I’m never very political in my blog but I’m going to go on a little rant here for a second. New Zealand is really pretty it’s covered in ferns and trees outside of nearly every city. When I was up north I was really sad to see all of the forests that had been forested and I was frightened by all the logging trucks plowing around the narrow roads. I came across another logging area in the woods today and have included some pictures of this.

Using the money I saved on not seeing the geysers up close I was able to go white water sledging. Essentially it’s like white water rafting but on a floating plastic board instead of in a raft. I was the only person on my tour and had three guides all to myself. I should have known that it wasn’t going to be easy when there were three guides for only me, but I’m quite thick sometimes. I imagined that it would be like boogey boarding but in a river. It turned out to be a terrifying series of kicking as hard as I could, getting pulled under the water, getting beaten up by the currents and thinking that I’m probably going to drown. It ended up being a lot of fun once I got the hang of it but was probably the most terrified I have been in a really long time. The company I went out with were amazing and I would highly recommend them. I don’t have any pictures of this but here is a link to the companies website with some photos of other people doing it. (Note none of their pictures show anyone drowning) Sledging Website

During the day I came back to the hostel to see if the Snore-a-saurus was still in my room and if I would have to change beds, rooms or even hostels but luckily he had packed up all of this stuff and moved on somewhere else.

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