Thursday 18 September 2008

Kia Ora



Welcome from NZ. We arrived in Auckland on Monday evening and spent Tuesday exploring New Zealand's largest city on the explorer bus. We went to the museum then up the skytower before catching up with an old friend and drinking the night away.

Yesterday we travelled north arriving in Paihia in the Bay of Islands. Today we spent the morning on a three hour cruise. The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, if was not for courage of the fearless crew the nicholls would be lost. But alas we made it back after seeing dolphins and New Zealand Fur Seals. Unfortunately due to the conditions the skipper did not take us through the Hole in the Rock (a feature of Bay of Islands cruises).

This afternoon we visited the Treaty House at Waitangi.

Tomorrow we head north to the tip of New Zealand and start heading back along the Ninety Mile beach (Joy thinks they have one of these in every country).

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