We awoke in the night to hear the tent shaking and the wind racing through the site accompanied by very heavy rain indeed.
It’s very difficult lying in a tent listening to the heavy rain when you need to go to the loo but eventually the time had come and we both got a little wet on our short journey. The rain was more like a car wash than a little rainfall and being blown at wind speeds of about 40 mph.
The inside of the tent is very dry indeed which is quite amazing considering all the rain since
We had a nice breakfast and looked at the mornings papers which had on the front page warnings about heavy rain all Saturday and in to Sunday perhaps. It is expected to be so bad that all emergency services are on standby as they expect to lose power and communication cables in the bad weather. It’s a pity the camp site did not tell us about this as we may have plumped for a Motel instead.
Just to make sure the tent was fully secure, Noel wandered around in just his underpants in the pouring rain, really not a pleasant site, to make the tent fully safe with extra pegs and guy ropes to stop it blowing away.
The tent has actually been great with no water in the bedroom but a little in the outside area but when you consider that roads are flooded and closed it’s not surprising that a little water got in.
We decided to take a trip into Waihi but the rain was so bad there was no point in getting out of the car and so we went for a short drive but it is so wet and grey that sightseeing is impossible.
We carried out some shopping at New World Supermarket in Waihi town and then we headed back for an afternoon in the lounge reading and catching up on internet stuff, emails etc.
This has to be one of the worst days we have ever camped in, including our stays in
By late evening the wind and rain had started to diminish and there was only a light rain when we went to bed.
