Hello! Just arrived back in Auckland from the Bay of Islands and Cape....had a fab time, everyone on the trip is cool and the place was beautiful! I've been on a speedboat trip round the bays, surfed down huge sand dunes (which went down really well with the contacts!!), up to the uppermost tip of the islands and on a dolphin boat tour...we were supposed to swim with them but there were 2 young and they were feeding so we could only watch but WOW! Didn't get man...

Ok - I made it in one piece! The flight was loooooong and uncomfotable and I didn't expect the running from one plane to another in Bangkok & Sydney but finally flew over NZ and the place looked just like a set from the Tellytubbies - SOOO green everywhere, was stunning. I got to the hostel at about 2 in the afternoon and crashed out for 12 hours! Only problem with that was at 2 in the morning I was wide awake sitting up in my bed, with nothing to do! Plan t...