We packed up and left Napier for Gisborne at 0930. After about an hour we stopped for coffee then drove on to Wairoa and had a picnic lunch by the large estuary of the Wairoa River. Again we had a lovely scenic drive through mountains and yet again there was not much traffic.
We arrived in Gisborne around 3.30pm where we were booked into a YHA Hostel for the night. It was very basic but clean and we had a private twin room with bathroom. After registering there we went to Kaiti Beach in Gisborne - the landing place of Captain Cook when he discovered New Zealand on 7th October 1769.
We met some interesting people at the hostel including a lady who lives in Bracknell, quite near to me in the UK. When researching her ancestry she discovered she had a Maori grandfather and has since visited New Zealand several times and found and met relatives. She regularly attends weekly Maori gatherings at New Zealand House in London and I intend to keep in touch with her and go to one of the meetings with her - probably when Terry is in the UK with me as she would find it interesting.,
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