My first day on Kiwi Experience, and boy what an experience! I am not the oldest person by any means (Richard Attenborough is in fact on board, well, someone who looks very like him) and I have met loads of non-18 year olds, which is nice. It's always a bit awkward at first chatting inanely to total strangers, but talking out of my bottom has always been a forte of mine. I have met one girl, Dina, who went to Cardiff at the same time as me and did Pharmacy - small world, eh? We travelled from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula, East of Auckland and stopped off at the very beautiful Cathedral Cove. From there we journeyed to Whitianga for the night (home of the Mercury Bay Yacht Club, where the New Zealand challenge for
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