Goat Island

... ://www.stayatbase.com/base-magnetic-island- hostel/ Meals included: Breakfast Activities: Anythinginvolvingwater!Scooterrental,ATVandmore... Day 3: Magnetic Island to Airlie Beach We catch the local bus this morning and take a 11⁄2 hour guided ...

... It was sad to say good-bye, but we said we'd stay in touch. We drove up the unsealed road for the last time and headed to Goat Island where we met up with Sarah & Alan at the only campsite there. It was really good to see them again, we went out ...

Goat Island is a marine reserve well known for its tons of fish.  You can even see snapper and some blue fish (we think it's called Maomao) right from the shore.  Lots of people scuba dive and snorkel there.  First we thought we'd go ...

... fuer unsere Weiterreise nach Australien sind, hatte unser Kiwi Freund Toby eine grossartige Idee. Er machte den Vorschlag, nach Goat Island (zirka eine Stunde von Auckland) zu fahren. Dort gibt es gute Schnorchelmoeglichkeiten. Das haben wir dann auch ...

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... . It took a while for us to get past the waves and into the water- but we made it eventually- and swam across to Goat Island. As it is a reserve, your not allowed to explore the island in order to protect the endanger species that reside there- but we ...

Pulling up at the Goat Island campsite, we were feeling pretty low. The weather had been hot and sunny for almost our entire stay with the Liddells in Massey. Now we actually had some time off, it had rained all day. We made the best of it in the drizzle, ...

... issues the trip was put on hold for another time! So, we headed north to Matakana for the Saturday markets and then on to Goat Island Marine Reserve. Highlights: Finding a new straw hat for Daniel in Matakana - just wish we had got one for Lucy too! ...

... we made up for it with tea for two in the tea rooms. It had been raining all day, and was still going when we reached Goat Island, well, the mainland by Goat Island. The nearest town was some drive away, but there was a campsite, so we checked in there ...

From Auckland we went up to Goat Island which is on the East coast of the North Island.  It's a black sanded beach with really amazing fish in the sea and everyone basically goes there to go snorkelling.  It's been pretty chilly the whole time ...

We begin our journey southwards, stopping for a few hours at Goat Island Marine Reserve. This is a small protected stretch of coastline which, although not tropical/coral reef does harbour many species of fish, birds and other marine life. We took a ...

Had breakfast beside a bunch of cows that were very interested in us. Headed to goat island for some snorkelling. After all the hype I was a little dissapointed with the marine life(weather wasnt great though) but still saw snapper, trigger fish and some ...

Lovely night spent at goat island taking ...

The road to Leigh was uneventful and the motor camp on the Goat Island Road was a hippy sort of camp with fairly basic facilities which were a bit grottylooking, however the shower was good and hot for me. Jim missed the button to press for hot water. Oh ...

... leaving Auckland in our fancy van we decided to take a well needed break from our jet lag and found ourselves on the Beach near Goat island Marine Reserve. It took all of 12 seconds of admiring a first look at the Pacific to spot the first pod of ...

... get, the more of a traveler I become. (Lets hope I remember what a shower is when I get back to England!). We headed to Goat Island for our first stop, which sadly had no goats. I've since decided that in New Zealand, when naming something, they will do ...