Kaiwharawhara Stream

We got up early as we had a 4 hour drive to Wellington to get through. I woke up feeling really cocky that my legs didn’t ache that much but after a couple of hours sitting in the van I had fully seized up and was hobbling about like I’d shat myself. We got to Wellington just after midday and went straight to Mount Victoria to get the best views of the city before heading to our “campsite” for the night (basically a car park in an out of town hotel) We jumped in an Uber and went straight on the cable car which was fun but not as thrilling as San Francisco and wandered about the botanical gardens for a bit. We were both feeling the burn from the day before so headed to Te Papa museum. They had a really interesting exhibition on about New Zealand’s involvement in WW1 which we spent ages in so we’re pretty info’d out by the time we got to the Maori bit. We rewarded our cultural endeavours with a pint and then went for some sushiLeer más