Anchor House

6 Kowhai Crescent, Paihia, Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand | Hotel

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A travel blog entry by metschos

20

... many photos, you can´t imagine…
A few of them are added to my entry, but just a few! ;)
The trip started at 7 in the morning and ended at 6.30 in the evening. It was a long day but full of beautiful impressions of the most amazing landscape I´ve ever seen. The landscape in NZ looks different to all the other ones I know, also the mountains and hills.
Everywhere in the Northland are hills and rocks and mountains and to drive through with ...

Hole in the Rock & Haruru Falls

A travel blog entry by hannahandsam

7

... which make up the bay of islands. Several of which are privately owned and required us to drop their post off en route! All of them stunning... The few pictures posted here not really doing it justice! We then made our way to the hole in the rock which was created over millions of years of erosion, and were lucky enough that the boat was able to pass directly through! On the ...

A Good First Impression

A travel blog entry by jessandtom

9

... of them; I'm slowly becoming convinced that dolphins might not just be poncy fish parading as mammals. The seals we saw were better though.

The boat then dropped us off at Russell, and gave us a free ticket for the ferry back to Paihia later in the day. Russell is an historic town which was initially New Zealand's capital city, and had a reputation as a pretty rough place where visiting whalers frequented its many brothels and pubs. Clearly, ...

The Blues Brothers fly

A travel blog entry by juliasussams

11

The next morning we picked up Hector. Hector was a Toyota van customised for living in, touring and generally seeing NZ. He was snug, to say the least but well kitted out. He also had dolphins painted on the side. The rental company, Escape, customises all it's vans that way, and we had actually seen a couple on the South Island. Our favourite being the one with Pacman on, but there was also Labyrinth (the film), a Sphinx, various birds and many ...

Bay of Islands... Bay of lost sunglasses

A travel blog entry by princessbecs

5

... suddenly a pod of bottle-nose dolphins were spotted moving out towards open sea, and so we were suddenly holding on tight as the boat zoomed over to see them, heading out into the deep blue. It was a really beautiful sight, and the dolphins played along side the boat jumping, somersaulting and swimming fast beside us. Sadly it was slightly marred by tinny American voices saying things like 'OMG! They're so pretty!!' and 'What majestic creatures! ...

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