It was a bright and sunny day in Paihia which is a sea side town, and out motel looked right onto the beach. However, was no time to sit & enjoy the view, we were off on a boat tour where we were promised sightings of dolphins & possibly seals and whales too! We were also promised waves and rain as it was forecast to get stormy later The boat tour took us round the bay of islands. Altogether there are 140 different islands, many formed by volcanic erupt...

While Andy went off to the airport I did some washing & planned our next adventure. He has a day off so we're going to away for a night After some brunch and saying goodbye to Lucy cat we were on our way north. It had been a sunny day in Hamilton & the sun continued to shine as we made our way to Auckland. We decided to swap the hire car from the budget tin can I'd chosen to a focus which wouldn't blow over in the winds forecast for later We the got ca...