{"id":678,"date":"2009-03-17T23:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2009\/03\/17\/nz-road-trip-day-two\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:54","slug":"nz-road-trip-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"NZ Road Trip Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We vacated our lovely free accommodation in Mangawhai Heads and continued our road trip north. We stopped at a beach for a sand castle competition. We all had 5 minutes to create our works of art for Mike to judge.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the photos and the results:<\/p>\n<p>A Sand Jandal &#8211; by Lynda<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42021.jpg' title='img_4202.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4202.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4202.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sand and Stuff Castle &#8211; by Jo<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42031.jpg' title='img_4203.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4203.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4203.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Paua Shell &#8211; by Chrissie<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42041.jpg' title='img_4204.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4204.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4204.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lynda won first prize for originality, Jo won first prize for prettiness and Chrissie won first prize for water draining efficiency (or something like that!)<\/p>\n<p>We left our works of art behind and headed off down a rugged dirt track to visit a cave.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42151.jpg' title='img_4215.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4215.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4215.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42161.jpg' title='img_4216.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4216.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4216.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42171.jpg' title='img_4217.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4217.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4217.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then stopped and looked at a big waterfall<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42232.jpg' title='img_4223.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4223.thumbnail.jpg' alt='img_4223.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_42191.jpg' title='img_4219.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4219.thumbnail.jpg' alt='img_4219.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we headed off to find some beachside accommodation and found a gorgeous spot right on the beach. It looked a little like rain so we decided to take a cabin. Once checked in a lot of screaming happened as it was full of spiders! We got some spray and sprayed the hell out of it but had a rather restless night worrying about spiders.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately no one thought to take photos of the bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We vacated our lovely free accommodation in Mangawhai Heads and continued our road trip north. We stopped at a beach for a sand castle competition. 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