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Sailing trip To Motuihe Island
... day, we anchored off the island and have our picnic, this is heaven good company and warm sunshine. After lunch we head back towards Auckland, wind changes and Charlie tells us both to sit on the side that has now risen out of the water, Dotty has now taken the helm so Charlie can change the sails, this is fun. As we are nearing Auckland Charlie asks do I want to take the helm, ...
A terrifying caving experience and hot puddles
... very long time (we always add about an hour onto journey times to account for the camper speed especially when negotiating mountains etc) so when we arrived we were very much ahead of schedule. We had booked the Black Labyrinth adventure, which would involve tubing in an underground river as well as jumping off waterfalls and managed to move it forward a little which still gave us time to enjoy the bacon baps we had been looking forward to, to give us much needed ...
Leaving Auckland on the Kiwi Experience
... side deep in the rugby heartland of NZ. Ferocious encounters which are motivated by passion, pride and a raw desire to win. These Kiwi players have a different intrinsic drive to that of the individualistic and materialistic show man's which were the England team at the past world cup. People here are very humble and recognise what an honour it is to 'play for their jersey'-that saying is used too much at home; it has so much more weight out here. I was able to learn a ...
Cruzin the Coradandel
... high tech fold out map - free when joining the AA (Car breakdown service)- we headed south from Auckland en route to the beaches!
Hot water beach (actual name of the town) was the one that caught our eye and the one we headed to first. It was named so because you can rock up with a shovel within a certain tide time window, start digging - and the theory goes- have a yourself your own thermal hot tub in 10 minutes.
We arrived on a lovely ...
My name is
... I would be arriving at exactly the wrong time. Still, that wasn't my mine reason to visit Hot Water Beach. I had found on the Internet a website advertising 'Auntie Dawn's place' - a B&B just up from the beach. I just had to visit. Funnily, enough I found Auntie's Dawn's Place with no trouble - it was sign posted from the main road. And I turned up just as Auntie Dawn was coming to collect her mail. I introduced myself and had a lovely ...
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