Tuesday August 28th - 2012
After a great night sleep we woke at 0830 to a clear and sunny morning all be it rather chilly. The day had arrived for us to take flight #2 to Rotorua, we had to be out of the hotel by 1000am and again as we had large bags we decided to get up and head straight off to the airport with the complimentary shuttle transfer. Arriving at the airport at 1000am we were able to check in again straight away and pay excess for those fishing rods for the final time, it was great to get rid of the luggage. We had rather a long wait for our flight to Rotorua as it did not depart until 1240pm, we went and got oursleves a nice cuppa and just spent time relaxing and waiting for boarding time. The flight was finally called and we boarded our rather small Beech aircraft (20 passengers + 2 crew) the flight time was only 35mins and flew at 12,000ft. It is a twin prop aircraft with 10 seats down each side of the aircraft. We arrived into Rotorua with just a hint of the usual sulphur smell that you associate with Rotorua. We were met by Rudi the guy from Pegasus Rental Car and after the formalities were over and a toilet stop we headed off south toward Turangi where we are to stay for 7nights at one of the police houses.
