DAY 3 PHALIA, BAY OF ISLANDS Weather is excellent, maybe too hot. Up fairly early for a days sailing on the corina catamarang(sp?). five of us from the tour are sailing today. myself a couple from wigan and 2 south african sisters, gisela and monika. all a good laugh. the actual sailing was a little disappointing has there was very little wind. ended up using the on board motor as this was much quicker. first stop was to a rock formation called ...

DAY 2 cont Out tonight for a number of beers. a mini pub crawl. stopped on the way into town and then on to pub with 2 for 1 offers. finsihed up drinking whiskey till 2.30in yet another bar. spent most of the time with lisa and grant, a nice couple from wigan and spent the rest of the night chatting with monika. steve was busy chasing the frenchies, a theme that sticks for the duration of the tour. ;-) this was followed by a long walk home, entertaini...

DAY 2 - AUCKLAND TO PHALIA, BAY OF ISLANDS well the tour all kicks off today. catch the coach, seems a reasonable bunch on the tour. half the people have already been touring for the last 13 days and only have 2 days left. they are telling us how great the whole tour is, all boding well so far. we cross the harbour bridge, the bridge is pretty unimpressive appart from the fact they added extra lanes by clipping them onto the edge of the existing br...