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By jume
August 28th 2008

Von der Coromandel in den hohen Norden

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More people, more problems (Richard) Am Morgen in Hahei schuettete es, so wie die ganze Nacht schon, wie aus Eimern. Die Prophezeihung des Campingplatzinhabers hatte sich also bestaetigt. Zwei Dinge waren sehr ungewiss, erstens war unklar wie gut sich Wanda auf diesen kurvigen Strassen bergauf und bergab bei Naesse machen wuerde. Zweitens fuhren wir nur noch mit dem Reserve-LPG-Tank. Die Nadel zeigte die ganze Fahrt ueber auf Null. Trotzdem machten wir uns auf den Weg ins 40 km entfernte Whitianga. Fuer diese 40 km braucht man bei trockener Strasse ca. 45 min.Nach ungefaehr einer S [View Full Entry]

By Lckiwis
August 9th 2008

Travelling by bus in Northland

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Hi At Rick and Sue's for a few nights at Haruru Falls. We left Dargaville Friday after a few days cleaning up after the storms. We travelled up to Mangonui and spent a night parked by Graeme and Margarets. Yesterday we went on to Tauranga Bay and stayed at the camping ground on the waterfront overnight, a lovely spot. We plan to be back in Auckland on Wednesday, and will put our bus into storage at Allen's on Thursday. We will be at Tracey's until we leave for Australia on the 24th. [View Full Entry]

By RovingRitchies
August 3rd 2008

Up, up and away...first stop NZ

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Orewa
first stop on the way to Bay of Islands...walking along the beach

Sunday 3 August Departed Sydney at 1100 and arrived in Auckland about 1500. Uneventful flight as usual. Hired a car and immediately left the city bound for Bay of Islands, first stop was Orewa. This was to set the scene for our future travels...drive all day and end up looking for a hotel just as it gets dark. Mon 4 Walked along the foreshore of Orewa Beach…wow some beautiful houses with a fantastic view but like everywhere in the world anything on the beach is very expensive. Drove along highway 1 to Whangarai where we had a picnic lunch at the [View Full Entry]

By DonGenaro
July 23rd 2008

Toch nog de zee op

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The Hole

Vanochtend toch goed weer om dolfijnen te kijken. Het zonnetje scheen en er waren maar een paar wolken en weinig wind. Rond negen uur kwam de catamaran waarmee we mee zouden gaan. Een erg mooi en snel uitziend geval. Een beetje tussen de eilanden door gevaren waar het relatief rustig was. Ondertussen had onze schipper contact met een andere boot die ook naar dolfijnen zocht. Al snel bleek het op open zee best ruig te zijn en besloten de boten eerst naar de Hole in the Rock te varen, het uiterste puntje van de Bay of Islands. Het ging er best [View Full Entry]

By DonGenaro
July 22nd 2008

Regen regen en nog eens regen

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Regen, dan maar lezen

Vanmorgen kwam de mevrouw van de camping langs om te vertellen dat onze dolfijnenzwemboottocht gecancelled was vanwege het slechte weer. Het regende namelijk al de hele tijd. We hebben vandaag weinig gedaan. We konden niet zoveel door de regen. We hebben wat gedronken in het dorp en wat boodschapjes gedaan. En we hadden mooi tijd voor de vieze was. Oja en de foto's hebben we op internet gezet. Hier hebben ze gelukkig snel internet op de camping. 's Avonds zijn we heerlijk uit eten geweest. Katinka [View Full Entry]

By Call 2 Adventure
June 22nd 2008

48 Hours of Diving at Poor Knights Island

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Leaving Tutukaka Marina
We arrived in Tutukaka at 10pm Friday night - leaving right after work from Auckland. We unloaded our gear, had a celebratory drink in the small town bar and crashed for the night on the liveaboard bo... [more]

Hi all. Well we survived our long weekend diving trip at Poor Knights Island - classified as one of the world's top 10 dive sites by Jacque Cousteau - one of my childhood heros. Marcos and I stayed with a group of divers on a live aboard boat - we never touched dry land in nearly 48 hours. We were there to get certified for Padi deep water diving 30metres (100+ feet). We did seven dives including a deep dive of 30m and a night dive. We were to have done a wreck dive but the water was too stormy. I [View Full Entry]

Small island group three quarters of the way through the crossing

By Cat and Alex
June 17th 2008

Luge, Rugby and the Bay of Islands

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The day after the clay pigeon shooting, we went on the Luge and sadly, I lost.. 3-0. In my defence, Alex races dirty and I was unlucky, and the races were close (we have photographic evidence!), but I did lose and faced him taunting me for the rest of the day (and probably for the rest of my life!). We didn't make it to the spa and hot pools in Rotorua, we went to the ones in Hanmer Springs and these were more expensive, so we missed them and went to the cinema instead! From Rotorua we went west to Hamilton [View Full Entry]

By Dom109
June 12th 2008

My Long Wait Over

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The long wait is finally over, but more to come on that later! Yesterday morning, I hopped on a bus at Sky City, and headed four hours up the road to Paihia, located in the gorgeous Bay of Islands. I arrived at lunch time, and booked into the hostel, as well as making a booking for a certain activity for the following morning. With one afternoon to use, I asked the receptionist what I should do. She recommended getting a jet boat out to the hole in the rock, before jumping off across the bay for a stroll around the town [View Full Entry]

By Deli
June 9th 2008

Journeys End

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Tonga (Vavau Group)
Neil climbs the anchor chain, one of the last times we swam in warm water.

Brrrrrr we have definatley come out of the tropics and arrived in New Zealand. So here is the last blog in the sailing story. This blog covers Tonga down to NZ. [View Full Entry]

By Ian and Pru
June 8th 2008

Our last couple of weeks in Kerikeri

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flag pole

Well it has been a while, but this travelling thing is hard work and very busy! We will break things down into a couple of entries first I will go back to our last couple of weeks in Kerikeri. Well we continued to do lanscape gardening till 2 days before we left - when the rain allowed. Then at weekends we took it fairly easy but we did manage a couple fo days trips: We did some more finishing - successful again! We also went to a place called Russell which is on a peninsula and from where we were staying [View Full Entry]

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