Paihia Star Motel
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Im Herz der Bay of Islands
... dem Zeugs, aber dafür unseren Spass! Das Pub organisierte dann noch einen grossen Wettpott in den jeder ein Pferd für 5 Dollar ziehen konnte und dieser dann am Ende an die 1. 3 aufgeteilt wurde..naja warum nich!! Ich hab mir dann aus Spass an der Freud eins gekauft, is immer witzig auf etwas zu Wetten von dem man eig keine Ahnung hat :)
gegen 20 Uhr sind dann noch Shirley und Emma, nach einer 30 min kajaktour zu uns ...
Monday day 36
... for us, we all met about half six. it was curry night too so we had a small menu to pick off, then we all sat and chatted about the day and what we got up to, couple of the girls had gone fishing and had cooked their fish for lunch which sounded really cool. Then it was back to our rooms to pack and get ready for tomorrow as we have an early start to set off back to Auckland as 4 of the girls finish their trip, then we continue on to Rotarua x ...
Starting on the road in New Zealand
... for our first night, as we got ourselves unpacked and figured out how everything worked in the campervan, without embarrassing ourselves too much! (It would have been quite comical to see us trying to figure out how to get the bed set up.) BBQ’d some burgers and potato wedges and hit the sack really early. It had been a long day!
Today, we headed up to the ...
Pretty Paihia
... local studio. We didn't really put much effort in as didn't actually want the prize, and some locals came by who clearly did and spent aaaaaaaages drawing an impressive Maori tattoo on their mate's back.
The next day we hopped on a boat to see the famous Hole in the Rock and to test Becky's sea legs (she has none, bleugh). As a bonus we stopped to see dolphins swimming alongside the boat :) We got off the boat at Russell, once known as the hell hole of the ...
Auckland to Paihia
... asked if some of our Stray Travel group would stay behind for photos with the maori. There were six of us girls, and 4 of them just walked off straight away, and didn't even answer the photographer. So I volunteered, as I thought it was be really cool, and persuaded this other Canadian girl on our tour to do it with me. We had some great photos with the male warriors, and then they asked us to do a Maori greeting called hongi, which I had never done before. You hold ...
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