After skydiving was cancelled AGAIN we fancied a drive to the top of north island some 266km away, considering we didnt set off till dinner time we arrived in good time, its the most northerly point of New Zealand and legend has it that when you die your soul travels up to the point then to spirits bay to rest, anyway to see the pacific ocean and the tasman sea join is worth the drive up, you can actually see the swell when they meet, after taking a good few pics...

hello all hope you had a fab christmas and looking forward to new year, i know i am, ok another day trip this time to a place north of Whangarei to the natural springs, at first a thought maybe 1 big pool with loads of peops crammed in but i was far off, we arrived after about 1pm overcast and starting to rain, payed our $5 entry fee then walked to the pools, we had 8 to choose from all with differant levels of heat (all had a funky smell well imagine 1000 boiled...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!!!.Hi all hope you had a quality time christmas day, we had it on ocean beach near Whangarei in glorious sunshine, we started on the Moet champs pretty early on, we made a feast for the beach which went down a treat, bungy arranged for his mates to meet us down there and suprisingly it was packed out with everyone just having a quality time with their rugrats etc, we also brought a footie n had a few games with the boys its been ages si...

we just been to Goat island which is about 80-90k south from us, we planned to scuba dive but water was a bit cold but never mind we decided to give the glass bottom boat a try and suprisingly it was cool, got to see loads of big fish and the woman guiding us along told us info etc, as you do i asked about big fish sharks and so on, the lady replied by saying yes great whites have been spotted only once thou (thats me not scuba diving then), also she informed us ...

hello all, another country again it feels unreal that we have only been travelling 1 month and seen so much, we arrived last sat in Aukland where ell's uncle was waiting for us, he lives 2 hours north so a bit more travelling awaited us, on arrival the peops where really friendly and had time for a quick chat, we arrived at Whangerai and Bungy(ells unc) had sorted us a beach view apartment for a week and his car so we where over the moon with that, so the la...