Oh the Watsu...

After Rotorua, we went to an orchard on the Firth of Thames for the night. Our hosts were Bill & Marylin and their lovely dog Kia. These were wonderful people who ended up giving me quite a few leads on ways to work in NZ. They have a "sub-tropical" orchard and all kinds of crazy and interesting fruits. Marylin is a Watsu practitioner, so, of course, I had a session with her at the Miranda mineral pools. I have never experienced something so relaxing... I highly reccommend it.

Sad as we were to leave the orchard, we went up the Coromandel Peninsula and it was beautiful. We had a room with a patio on the beach and got to hang out for a couple of days. we had made arrangements to go snorkeling (parents) / diving (me), but the weather got bad, so we ended up just relaxing and playing cards. We've also done a fair bit of shell collecting on this trip. Mom's the expert, being a beach girl herself, but Dad and I don't do too bad either. As many of you know, I'm more keen on collecting rocks (yes, I will be carrying rocks back to the states with me).