Again photo is not where we're staying but we are near a beach! We will get some photos on here soon for you guys to see the progression in our tans! So we've been in Paihia just over a week now and are having a great time. We celebrated Grace's birthday by going on a boat trip to try and swim with dolphins. The trip was amazing and we saw two pods of dolphins (common and bottlenose). The bottlenose came right to the front of the boat where we were sitting on th...

Picture is nowhere near where we actually are, it's on the opposite coast but they havent got one of Whangarei. We have been doing quite a bit of walking here as there's not much to do in the town itself apart from sit by the wharf and get a tan (which we did yesterday!) We have walked to the kiwi house and museum but didn't see a kiwi : (. Today we have been to the Whangarei waterfall, apparently the most photogenic waterfall in New Zealand, however, they hav...

We are once again back in Auckland, not the nicest place in New Zealand but we will cope!Stayed in a truly aweful hostel last night so have moved today! Have booked onto next bus journey to take us up north starting off in Whangarei (pronounced fangeri! crazy New Zealanders!) then up to the Bay of Islands for maybe swimming with dolphins, if not the next two weeks is going to be primarily sight seeing and sunning ourselves! Such a hard life we're living! Not mu...

We are once again back in Auckland, not the nicest place in New Zealand but we will cope!Stayed in a truly aweful hostel last night so have moved today! Have booked onto next bus journey to take us up north starting off in Whangarei (pronounced fangeri! crazy New Zealanders!) then up to the Bay of Islands for maybe swimming with dolphins, if not the next two weeks is going to be primarily sight seeing and sunning ourselves! Such a hard life we're living! Not mu...

We are once again back in Auckland, not the nicest place in New Zealand but we will cope!Stayed in a truly aweful hostel last night so have moved today! Have booked onto next bus journey to take us up north starting off in Whangarei (pronounced fangeri! crazy New Zealanders!) then up to the Bay of Islands for maybe swimming with dolphins, if not the next two weeks is going to be primarily sight seeing and sunning ourselves! Such a hard life we're living! Not mu...