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Travel Blogs from Whakatane
And I thought the volcanic island would be scary
... to get to the island. Then there was the off loading part. White Island does not have a dock like you might expect. In fact they normally use a cement landing wharf that is about 100 years old and they ferry passengers between the 70 foot boat and the wharf by inflatable dinghy. When we arrived at the island, however, they couldn't even use the usual bay with the old cement wharf as the wind was coming from the southeast - directly into that bay. The alternate bay was getting ...
Ganz schön heiß!
... Strand zu laufen, was aufgrund der Tatsache, dass es anfängt zu regnen nicht sonderlich attraktiv scheint. Stattdessen esse ich Joghurt und suche im Netz nach potentiellen Unterkünften für die kommende Nacht, denn es ist schon 15 Uhr durch. Der Entschluss steht: heute geht die Reise weiter bis kurz vor Whakatane in der Bay of Plenty. Als ich Coromandel verlasse merke ich schnell, dass die Straßen wieder gerade weder und sich ...
Geysir, Mudpools und verfaulte Eier
... dem kulturellen und geologischen Zentrum Neuseelands. Hier gibt es den groessten Geysir, doch dafuer muss man eine Tour machen und sie verlangen einfach zu viel dafuer. Wir wuerden auch gerne etwas ueber die Maori lernen, doch es ist einfach zu teuer. So essen wir lecker Sushi zum Mittag und schlendern etwas durch die Gassen, bevor wir weiter nach Norden fahren und schliesslich in Matata halt machen um zu kampieren. Wir sind hier direkt am Strand und geniessen weiterhin schoenes Wetter.
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Birthday
... a treasure hunt. There are new and different shells and things at each beach we visit.
In the evening we went through the town centre and stopped at the chinese and got a very nice meal, enough to feed a football team.
We went up to the lookout and had a fantastic view over the city, the harbor and the ocean.
Instead of a birthday cake we had an ice cream at a restaurant.
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Fun in Whakatane
... that evening at the riverside ampitheatre just for something a bit different but were too tired after a days walking. So we had some delicious homemade steak burgers and retired to bed for some light reading. Whakatane is the first place we have started to notice the cold, not sure if this is because of the current weather or because we have gotten a bit further south, it isn't really much of a problem we are still in shorts and t-shirts all day, it is just early in the evening we need ...