Topping up the tan!

On the third day of our stay in Rotorua we had planned a day trip north to the Ohope Beach. This is a part of the Bay of Plenty and has miles of beautiful sandy beaches. Everyone on the group was going and we had heard that it was worth seeing so were looking forward to it.

The trip to Ohope took about an hour and we had Richard (Willis - Steves father) entertaining us with some interesting history and trivia about the area. After about an hour we reached Ohupi beach and spent our time as any people do on the beach - playing games, having a dip in the sea and most importantly working on the tan!! It was one of the hottest days we have had in New Zealand so far and later on Andrea did an uncomfortably hot run up one of the mountains into the bush running by a secluded beach with some of the other KiwiRunners.


Ohope beach

When we came back we had a group barbeque and relaxed playing some music and games. Andrea even got a massage from Craig (the tour physical therapist). It is a hard life!!


Me doing a baywatch run into the sea in slightly illegal running shorts! - watch out for me putting my arms up at the end..