More rain in Porirua

Woke up to more torrential rain and it was just too nice to stay in bed and out of the wet. We stayed in bed until midday and made a break for it in the five minutes of slightly less rain that we had that day.
Such a wash out day. In the end we headed to the cinema to see Dr Strange (awesome movie!) and then slumped back to camp to make dinner.

Was pretty busy in the kitchen due to the rain but we had our speciality rice with soup. The most exciting part of the night was probably discovering that chunky steak soup might be even more delicious than chicken soup!

We had a chat with Henry, a man from Holland who was also in the dining room, and shared lots of travelling stories. Turned out he was also headed to the South Island and was on our ferry. We said goodnight after a good couple of hours and finally we had some slight ease of rain which made getting ready for bed much more pleasant.Read more