What a day on the water! - We were blessed with some sunshine for the 4 hour boat cruise all throughout the bay out to the hole in the rock. We got dropped off on one of the islands for a little hike to some great vantage points. I'll post a couple of those pics along with a shot of "The Hole" We got dropped off again on one of the islands with a town called Russell. Found a cozy spot on a beach with a chilled bottle of NZ Pinot and passed some lazy afternoon tim...

Up early on a pretty sunny day in Auckland. What a challenge it is to drive in that city if you are not used to driving on the left side of the road. I got twisted around mixed in with the morning work traffic and had a b**** of a time finding the freeway (Motorway) to drive north out of the city. Oh well, ust a little adventure in getting lost. Once we got out on the state highway, it started to look alot like Sonoma/Napa area with very pretty rolling hills with...

We made it into Auckalnd late (10:30PM) Tuesday nite had quite a trip getting to our hotel. Very crazy driving late at night on the left (or wrong) side of the road. I keep having people flashing their lights at me to get back into the left lane. Good thing not to many cars on the road at that hour. Emi and I are spending our day walking the bay front harbor part of Auckland and just site seeing in the city. We start our driving journey tomorrow going to the nort...

We're about 36 hours out from making our way via "Hawaiian" airlines to Auckland. Here we are, just around the corner from traveling on a 3 plus week trip and we still have not got confirmation on our bookings. Needless to say, this trip has been planned very loosely. Oh well - it should be finalized tomorrow (Sunday) then we leave first thing Monday morning. Our plan so far is to fly Stand-by both to and from Auckland. Emi says it looks real good that we will ge...