Tauranga...

This was a small city that we stopped in called Tauranga. We went on our first hike in New Zealand! It was called Mount Maunganui and was right by the ocean. As you're hiking you just overlook the ocean the whole time. It was so gorgeous. The trees here are very interesting too because you have typical forest trees that I'm used to seeing but also ferns, and rain forest type forestry all in the same place. It's amazing how diverse the land is here.

(The view from the hike)

Then we got to go to the beach for the first time! The water was not too cold and it was so gorgeous. There were actually jelly fish in the water so I didn't want to spend a ton of time. I did not want to get stung by one of those bad boys. I got another sunburn too. The sun here is killer and you can't be outside for more than an hour without getting burned if you don't have sunscreen on.