When they smelled my hot cross bun this morning at breakfast I had two turkeys around looking for crumbs, they belonged to the campsite owner but I have seen turkeys with young ones far away from habitation so they must be feral the same as the pigs which one of the locals told me that he hunts with friends. Yesterday I had company for breakfast when a scruffy looking blackbird came over to share my fried egg rolls he was not shy at all and on closer inspection I could see that his yellow bill was actually a crossbill so he was not a UK import.
I drove the length of the coast of the Bay of Plenty this morning as far as Whakatane but for some reason I was not encouraged to stay there so I headed south and I am now at a campsite 3kms north of Lake Taupo town, the journey down was very scenic with natural forest on both sides in places and the road actually skirts lake Rotoma which is in a beautiful quiet setting.
Later........
I walked into town looking for some action on a Saturday night but all I met were street restaurants full of tourists which I knew without asking did not have a table for one but I wasn't there for that so I went one street back and found Flynn McCuhal's a low rent Irish pub which served me "twice baked lamb shank pie" with lashings of gravy, mash and mushy peas washed down with pints of Speight's Bitter, then I joined some of the locals to watch the Chiefs get battered by the Crusaders at Super Rugby after I had commiserated with the guys the live band kicked off. I wasn't expecting too much from a reggae band with five keyboards but Buffalo Soldier, I shot the Sheriff and No Woman no Cry etc came over just great and I managed to walk the mile and a half back to the campsite with only one stop. A good first day in Taupo.
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