After our diving in The Malborough Sounds, our next stop would be Tauranga (North Island), where our good mates Alen and Rob are from. Alen had spoken to his parents and told them we were in NZ, They invited us to stay with them for a couple of nights.
After sleeping in the car for nearly two weeks a bed sounded pretty good!!
Karen and Dave (Alens parents) took us in to their home with a warm welcome.
We had lovely food and clean beds, more than we could have dreamed of at that time!
Dave took us out fly fishing one of the days, this was thhe first time we ever tried this type of fishing.

 Later that night we smoked the fish, with Jack Daniels flavoured mulch.
That was some good eating!!