Cherry Court Motor Lodge Whangarei

Departed Camp site around 10:00Am; travelling to the Waipoua forest to see Tane Mahuta, the giant Kauri tree. This tree is estimated to be over 2000 years old and stands some 51 meters high by 13 meters circumference, This is one big tree!! Had to drive through a tropical rain forest to get to the location and it was beautiful but wet as it was raining. The forest was huge and very rugged, stretching for miles. Once we emerged from the forest travelled down the West coast to a place called ...

... before 12 and find a hostel to stay at, pretty hostel called the<br>pickled parrot. We found that we would be the only ones in the hostel<br>that night ( unless anyone else checks in that afternoon).<br><br>We then drive down to the bay to see<br>what there is to do in the Bay in the middle of winter (12c). We book<br>ourselves on to the Mack Attack boat ride for later in the afternoon.<br>We wandered around the shops, Dean sampled the first fish and chips<br>out side of the ...

... the view of Hugh Jackman in Australia for 3 hours.....phwoar! By 15th January I had arrived in Franz Josef, where the plan was to camp out until the weather was good enough to take a helicopter up onto the glacier. I booked for the morning of 16th Jan in good faith and was gutted when I awoke to heavy cloud cover...it was cancelled......BUT, I was told to return at 11.15am in case a meteorological miracle happened and the midday trip was allowed to go. The gods ...

... horses, and chickens and other friendly animals, along with a small organic garden patch. Our room was beautiful - looking more like some mid-range hotels we've stayed in. The décor was all straight from Bali and had a very Zen feel. We got details on the hostel, then details on making the caving trek. Within a very short time, we were changed into our caving clothes. With map in hand and headlight and helmet on, we climbed the stairs ...

... said 'why poo' which makes it a odd fantasy destination but today I thought of it as the promised land, a town paved with gold and pies (neither of which is really a good paving material). You see today started (after some faffing at the hostel and a long phone call home) with 38km on track rumbling, roadwork (gravel) covered, fast moving highway one, which is not a good cycling route but in a country with few roads it was the ...

... mixtos, locales y maories la visitamos con Maxine para llevar unos murales y otra noche nos llevaron Tracy y Ho a cazar possums, una especie de ratas que se comen todo lo que pillan y hay superpoblacion... Yo no me queria ir de la granja, estabamos muy a gustito, pero el tiempo pasa y acababamos de empezar. El Dirk le tradujo la web y yo cocinaba, incluso cocine paellita, que aunque salio rica, confieso que anyadi todo lo que pille porque no pusimos conejo y no tenian las ...

... Tauchkurs abgehalten wurde, sind wir sogar auf 29 m getaucht. Unvorstellbar, dass man in dieser Tiefe noch ca. 20 m Sicht hat. Christian hat sogar eine Muraene gesehen, dafuer hab ich ganz zum Schluss einen Hai gesehn (Gott sei dank waren wir schon wieder auf dem Boot :)) Zum zweiten Tauchgang am Nachmittag hab ich dann auch meine Unterwasserkamera mitgenommen... bin schon auf die Fotos gespannt Dieser Tauchgang war wegen ...

... garden. The breakfast they gave the following morning but served in the main house and was tasty. We had the rest of the afternoon and evening to explore Whangarei. We headed into town to have lunch at a cafe on the waterfront and checked out the many, high quality galleries and souveneir shops. We then walked around town some more--taking in some fun shops (amoung these a good sewing shop with nice quilting materials), visiting several parks and gardens (the nicest of ...

... de poisson, notamment des raies en-veux-tu-en-voila, et franchement, pas mal de coins interessants (arches, grottes, tombants sublime). Le pied total. JJ (toujours Cousteau) avait raison (en tout cas, c'est parmi les 10 meilleurs que JE connaisse, ce qui est loin d'etre dur). C'en est au point qu'avant meme de rentrer au port, on se decide a passer notre deuxieme niveau de plongee sur les 2 journees suivantes histoire d'en profiter un peu plus ...