The Kuari tree musuem was good, I know as much as I ever want to know about the kuari tree now :-) From there we drove back accross to Paihia on the east coast for me to do my swim with dolphins again after the boat broke down last week. I booked in to do the Bay cruise and dolphin swim on Wednesday morning, but when we got up the windy weather had followed us from the west. The cruise went ahead anyway but they did warn that due to the choppy conditions we ma...

Left Auckland on Sunday and headed north to Paihia at the Bay of Islands. Arrived Sunday afternoon and had a look around. On Monday we went Kayaking in the bay and went out to two of the islands just off the bay, then followed the coast line andcut inland up a small estury until the tide changed and was against us. In the afternoon we borrowed some bikes from the hostel but with the combination of the bikes and the wind we did not go far. On Tuesday we tried...