Settlers Hotel Whangarei
61-69 Hatea Drive Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand
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DAY 1 of the road trip
... South Island.
We stopped for the night at Baylys Beach Holidy Park, it is a real nice park, fully serviced, thank god. I think we will spend a little time around here tomorrow morning, before we hit the road again. We took a walk down to the beach, seems to be a nice little beach community here.
Alan is doing a great job driving the motorhome down this narrow roads (they call highways), on ...
Perfect Day
... my mind wandered (as often happens when girls watch sport) and so I thought of the song Perfect Day and the fact that it would make a very good funeral song. Don't worry I'm not dying just yet but I do think its a good idea to make your wishes known before the event (to find out my other choice you will have to attend the do). Whether your whole day is perfect or not doesn't matter. What matters is that ...
Besuch & Whangarei-Bar-Hopping
... Klampfe und ner Super-Stimme Live-Musik gemacht haben. Einfach klasse die beiden. Am naechsten Tag sollen sie mit der ganzen (Polaris-)Band im Bacio spieln. War'n leider nich da.
Abschliessend noch ne Runde Billard. Auch hier Live-Musik. Wird aufgrund aufkommender Muedigkeit nicht mehr so richtig wahrgenommen.
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Long rides and campgrounds
... for the easter break.(How could we forget easterbreak!)
It was already late at night when we arrived at a campground inDargaville but when we arrived there Kai found out he had no cash on him, so we drove around town for a bit first, trying to find a ATM.
When he was putting up the tent, I prepared dinner(pasta lol) in the shared kitchen. I was quite happy to lay in the tent listening to some music whilst he wrote in his diary in the ...
Jackie`s Advanced Dive Course Finally Finished!!
... and even though you can only see their fins from a distance it was awesome seeing them flip around. After a bit though we got closer and it was so cool seeing them swim right by and under the boat; they were huge! When we were done with the mantas we headed back to the mainland to call it a day.
We got all my stuff taken care off and they signed off on my advanced course and gave me my certificate for the course! Finally after two months I`ve gotten it ...



