Today, we all spent our time together with our guide Steve. We visited Pilot Bay, Omanu Beach, and the Mt Maunganui Coast. Steve presented us with lots of narrative surrounding the interesting colonial and Māori history about this fertile and amiable region.
We also visited the Te Waiha Orchard, one of the orchards of the 30,000 acres of Kiwifruit that is grown in this area.
Our next stop was at McLaren Falls, where we saw a photogenic cascade, and then several of us took a 20-minute walk through New Zealand’s unique forests to a smaller waterfall for another photo opportunity.
Then we returned to Tauranga for a coffee break and a visit to the Elms Historic Homestead which is the original European mission house constructed in the 1800’s.