Up early on the ferry for a kinda rough ride across Cook Straight. Our boat was a lot nicer than the first ferry, we had big comfortable seats and they had a large food court with all kinds of eating options. Shabree's stomach was a little on edge so we went for the $1 toast option and it was SO GOOD. We had not had toast in so long it is amazing how much we missed it! On land again it was pedal to the medal through the north island farm land to Ohakune, the gateway to Tongariro National Park, home of Mordor and Mt. Ngauruhoe (Mt Doom). We pulled into the I-site and inquired about the Tongariro Crossing, turned out the weather was supposed to be bad so no shuttles were running the next day so we had to find something else to do. The Wiatomo Caves were next on our list and a couple hours up the road so we grabbed some fliers, called and set up a 10am tour and jumped back in the trusty vannette to head north.
A couple hours later we pulled into Juno's a hostile in the middle of green rolling hills of grazing land, apparently right in the middle of cave country and 5 minutes from our tour operator headquarters. The hostile was a happening place with almost all the tent site full and people lounging all over the community room and kitchen. We heated up dinner and ate outside in the hot, sticky weather to avoid the crowded and even hotter, stickier hostile. Poor shabree spent from half way through dinner till she could finally fall asleep fight off severe stomach pains that we could not figure out where they were coming from. Luckily she was able to fall asleep and we both slept well waking occasionally to a passing downpour.
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