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June 2nd 2007

Published: June 2nd 2007

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Krazy Kate

Auckland from the Sky Tower

Well it has been a while since my last blog.

Stayed in Adelaide for a week as you all know, this is where is did the shooting.

We are now in New Zealand and have been here for a week now.

And.......I LOVE IT!!!!!! its absolutely amazing! the scenery is out of this world. The weather has been perfect up until today where is has been raining. We have a campervan to tour the country in.

James has gone home so its just us girls left. The campervan is like our own little home. However we are on our second van, but you must understand it wasn't our fault! the whole van was tipping to the right so we sent it back and got a newer one. (And no it wasn't all our luggage!)

We have toured the top of the North Island so far. We started in Auckland and spent two days in the Capital looking in the city and climbing to the top of the Sky Tower. From Auckland we drove North to the Poor Knights Islands. We stayed in Tutakaka where i went diving around the islands. It was brilliant. The best

Poor Knights Islands

This is where i dived. Classic wall dive on the first dive

diving i have ever done. The water temperature was 18 degrees so a bit cooler then i am used to, but the visibility was amazing, so clear. The Island are fed but the warm Australian currents so it is teaming with plant and fish life. I saw lots of fish, and sea kelp and lobsters and eels and loads of things. It was great. My diving buddy even had me swimming into caves and through rocks. So i can highly recommend the Poor Knights diving to Nic and Mark back at work.

The next stop on our tour was the Bay of Islands. Again the views were breathtaking. The first evening i went to look at the Treaty House built for James Busby, the first English settler by appointment of the king to oversee the trade within the bay, etc. It was good. The next day we all went on a boat trip around the islands and.......SAW DOLPHINS!! there was a large pod swimming in the sheltered shallows with their calves. The adults came right up to the boat and swam along side. I couldn't get over the size of them. The adult bottle nosed dolphins were over 4

Dive Boat

With Luke my instructor with the tanks and Micheal from Canada another diver.

meters long. The boat trip was great, oh we also was some smelly seals sunning themselves on a nearby rock.

From the Bay of Island we continued to Cape Reinga which is the very tip of New Zealand. This is where the two seas meet. On a stormy day the view is spectacular. However when we got there it was calm with clear blue skies! i was even in shorts and t-shirt. We also visited the sand dunes to partake in a spot of sand dune boarding. It was great. We hired body boards and trekked to the top of the dunes to surf down them. The dunes were huge.

We then drove south along highway 1 to the Kauri Forests. We had a look at the biggest Kauri in New Zealand which is pretty impressive. We stopped at a really nice campsite for the night. And today we are back in Auckland. Just for one night. We are in the City now having a mooch around waiting for our showing of Pirates of the Caribbean at the cinema up the road.

I am having an ace time, i would recommend New Zealand to everyone, i love