Weekend Trip to Hamilton & Raglan

The weekend before Easter we took off for an extended weekend trip to Hamilton and Raglan. Hamilton is about an hour-and-a-half south of Auckland. It's New Zealand's largest landlocked city. It has a population of around 135,000. Brad's main goal for this trip was to get some surfing in at Raglan (NZ's most famous surf break). Raglan is about 35 minutes west of Hamilton. Unfortunately the swell was minimal to non-existent, so we spent our time at the beach searching the tidepools.




We found a couple of starfish that the boys were quite impressed with.



A beautiful sunset over the Tasman Sea in Raglan.



On Saturday, we spent the morning at Hamilton's zoo. It was a small zoo, but the boys really enjoyed it, especially the elephants and zebras. We forgot the camera, so I don't have any documentation of this outing, but you know...a zoo's a zoo! We spent the afternoon relaxing and then headed back to Raglan to check out the surf again (none!) and eat supper. It was a pretty low-key trip, but it was nice to get out of Gisborne for a bit, and it will be the last trip we take before heading home in a few weeks.