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Auckland to Paihia
... persons hand, and press your noses together. But when I did it, we had to hold it for ages so they could take photos, and me and this Maori guy really had to stop ourselves from laughing. It was a bit awkard, but all good fun. We had a couple of photos with a Maori woman, befoe rejoining the group. We looked at the rest of the pa site, befor leaving the school group to carry on, as we had to leave. As were going, the photographer asked me and the Canadian girl to ...
Bay of Islands. Beautiful
... down loads of rocks to get into the cave and walk through quite deep water. I felt like we were pot holing. Not expecting to do this on the trip, but happy to do so. There were hundreds of glow worms down there and it looked as though you were looking up to the night sky and seeing hundreds of yellow stars. We all managed to climb out safe and sound and escape the eels that were apparently swimming around ...
Swimming with wild dolphins
... of our time cruising around the Bay of Islands. It is such amazing scenery. Really beautiful. We saw strange blue fish, but no whales or orcas unfortunately. I spent the time chatting to two Welsh girls, one who studied in Plymouth. They are out for a whole year.
On one of the islands lives the co-founder of Sky News. He has his own heli-pad etc and because the government wouldn't give him permission to build a jetty he asked his neighbour for permission ...
Peaceful Paihia
... we thought it probably appropriate to have a look the Treaty House and grounds. We had an incling that it was free for NZ residents which to our delight it was, we just had to show our NZ driver license to prove we were Kiwis, which was lucky because it was the only ID we had. We did cave to the hard sell for a guide book (but declined the pack including a calendar) but it was only a fiver so still worked out pretty ...
Paihia - The Kiwi Experience begins
... the bodies moving in the night it was pretty noisy. One of the guys we were sharing with was also prone to sleepwalking and talking. It was actually pretty funny to watch him get out of bed, walking round for a bit and shout 'f*cking hell' in his sleep.
Despite our interrupted sleep we were up at 5am the next day for our day trip which meant a lot of fumbling in the dark for clothes so as not to wake up our room mates. In hindsight, we needn't have bothered ...


