Tropicana Motel Whangarei

Hey Bro - <br>Spike: Made a new format. Write your name beside the stuff you say, unless its just the itineray stuff. All new entries will be in bold. So if you come on and change something I will know what youve done and vica versa. Good yes no? So when you come on there will be stuff in bold from me. Just de-bold my stuff and make your new stuff bold. If you write something new just throw your name in front of it. If this ...

... wind lashed seas against the tropical greenery and yellow beaches was quite a sight.<br><br>So here I am on a tiny campsite. Not the most picturesque of places and tightly packed but Graham the owner is friendly and has just helped me establish power to the van. He does say the power lead plug is very tight though and I may need help removing it in the morning. No sneaking off in the middle of the night for me then!

... sand silica beach and then went quad biking along the sea front and over the dunes of Ahipara. It was brilliant....I'll admit to it also being a little scary though as we each took it in turns to plummet over the edge of a sheer drop down a dune in 5th gear with no breaks....but, my god, what a buzz...better than any roller coaster I've been on. Going behind the guide with his supercharged quad had its drawbacks though....by the end of the 3 hours I felt like a ...

... wir, bis nach Whangarei zu fahren und blieben dort im Top 10 Campingplatz, das wir um 21h erreichten. Wir waren echt muede von der ganzen Fahrt, hatten aber noch ein langes Gespraech bis wir dan huendemuede ins Bett fielen. Am naechsten morgen gings fuer 3 Stunden ins Internet und danach hatten wir ne Pizza und ein Bier in dem Caffe Amici. Den Nachmittag haben wir dann mit waschen im Campingplatz "Alpha Park" verbracht, wo wir auch die Nacht verbrachten.

... morning for a flight in another of those miniscule airplanes to Auckland and then a long tedious wait for my flight from Auckland to Sydney. I'm staying the weekend with friends at Lane Cove in Sydney, and then starting the return journey to Heathrow late Sunday afternoon. That was Plan A, but the Thai protestors might have put paid to that. Maybe I'll get to see a bit more of the sun and Sydney than I was expecting! H.x

... was ace. It was a shop full of puzzles we had a go at a few and I engaged in geeky puzzle chat with the owner from my time working in a toy shop (it not often you can do that) and he told me all about puzzle conferences, which are apparently held all over the world and are tax deductible! The actual labyrinth wasn't finished so went for a walk (it stop raining/galing at this stage) to a surprisingly pretty waterfall, not that waterfalls aren't ...

... returning so soon. Our final stop was Goat Island Reserve where I briefly entertained the idea of snorkelling though the icy water soon put me off. Luckily fish can be seen simply from standing on the outlying rocks because the marine life is that abundant here! It was a great way to round off a fantastic and rather unexpected trip into Northland but one I'd highly recommend.

... um unser Auto zu verkaufen. Hoffentlich klappt das so halbwegs.... mach mir schon Sorgen. 10/05/2008 Wir haben heute den Tag damit verbraucht unser Auto zu putzen und unser Zeugs wieder in die Rucksaecke zu verpacken, da wir morgen am Automarkt versuchen werden es zu verkaufen. 11/05/2008 Mother's Day + Car fair Market Autoverkauf: 1. Versuch Das war ja wohl nichts.... ausser Spesen nichts gewesen. Es sind momentan sehr viele ...

... get two quite different stories. My story would be I calmly assessed the situation, realised there was no immediate danger as this giant eel was most likely blind and didn't pose an immediate threat and then slowly moved out of it's path so as not to disturb it's fragile habitat. Inge-Marie might say she heard a load sound of someone saying "oohhhh shhhhttttt" and then within a flash going from standing in the water to perched on a nearby ...

... to their fab children. We ended up staying for 3 days having fun in their fabulous company and they forced us (yes forced I tell you!) to take their quad bikes out on to the beach with a huge picnic filled with all sorts of unsaintly foodstuffs. Then disaster struck. Stan's camera went kaputski after a meer 3 months of trigger happiness. He was mortified. Distraught. Heartbroken. Inconsolable. He had become like the Borg and gotton used to seeing the ...