Spent our last few days in and aroud Auckland. We just explored it and David decided to jump off the Skytower - tallest base jump by wire in the world. And he did it twice!! You can see it on the photo - pretty high! I was not tempted!!! Walked around the parks and the harbour before saying our goodbyes to New Zealand.

Spent the day cruising around the Bay of Islands. We went through the famous 'Hole in the Rock' before having a picnic lunch on a secluded island. We managed to see lots of Bottlenose dolphins swimming around us too, they were huge. Normally we would have been able to swim with them but there where babies in the pod which prevented us from doing so. We still enjoyed the acrobatic show they put on for us though. Even though the water was freezing, David st...

We finally reached the top end of New Zealand's North Island, Cape Reinga. We saw where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean and you can actually tell where they meet! After that we headed off down Ninety Mile Beach where we stopped off to do some sand-boarding down huge sanddunes. Its fun when you eventually get to the top, its agony on the way up! I managed to toboggan down quite easily but when it came to David - not so easy!! He decided to wave at me fr...

We visited Hot Water beach where at low tide you can dig your own hot thermal spa on the beach. Pure streams of hot water would fill our pool and make it so hot we were grateful when the tide would wash into our spa and cool us down. That was until the tide completely knocked down our carefully constructed wave barrier and were left with no more than a dip in the sand.

After visiting Wai-O-Tapu thermal village and Rotorua, we visited New Zealand's only active marine volcano - White Island and we could definately tell it was active. We even got briefed on what to do if it started erupting and hurling lava bombs our way. It was scary!! Equipped with our hard hats and gas masks, we made our way past boiling hot mud pools and sulphur vents. There was a huge crater filled with an emerald coloured lake created by the last volcani...