The evening's activity, once we got to Tauranga on the east coast (strange to think that we were on the west coast only yesterday) was to do a glowworm kayaking tour, which turned out to be on the man-made Lake McLaren about half an hour's minibus-and-kayak-trailer drive from our assembly point at the Waimarino water park, and only involved a very small stretch of glowworm gorge, but I was grateful for the uncomplicated nature of the kayaking on the open linear lake because I am fairly woeful both at paddling and at steering with the rudder, so it was a good thing we were in a double kayak with G doing most of the work. Nice evening for it - we have been getting all the serious touristing done before the weather craps out again later in the week!
On the way back to our Mt Maunganui accommodation we found The Pizza Library
https://www.thepizzalibrary.co.nz/ where all the pizzas on the menu are named after different novels, and of course I ordered The Hobbit :)