Blogs from Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 16

Morgen's wurden wir, wie gewohnt, von der Sonne wachgeküsst. Wie bereits noch am Vorabend beschlossen, mieteten wir uns ein 90 PS Speedboot an, dass ohne Lizenz gefahren werden durfte. Bei uns in Deutschland wäre das mal wieder unmöglich gewesen. Nach kurzem englischen Briefing des Skippers, vertraute er uns im sicheren Glauben uns das Boot an :-). Nun konnten wir 4 Stunden lang eigenmächtig das Ruder (und den Gashebel!!!) in die Hand nehmen und die Bay of Island erkunden. Die Bay of Island besteht aus insgesamt 144 kleinen und großen Inseln. Innerhalb dieser Inseln sollen sich des öfteren Delphine und Orcas tummeln. Leider konnten wir, bis auf Albatrosse, keine Meeresgetiere sehen. Umso mehr Zeit hatten wir, das Speedboot voll auszufahren. Über 1 bis 2 Meter hohen Wellen schossen wir, dem Gashebel am absoluten Anschlag und mit 6 ... read more

NZ Day 25. So, it started raining yesterday on our way back from Cape Reinga- about 2ish. Well it did stop a couple of times overnight, but pretty much continuous rain since then. We rang the national highway phone this morning to check if the highway we wanted to travel on was open. They had no reports of closures so off we set for the east coast & the Bay of Islands & a town called Paihai. Struth...has there been some rain. At first there was some puddles in the paddocks & a bit in the drains alongside the road. Then there were small lakes & then there was water everywhere....& I do mean everywhere!! I have never seen so much flamin’ water.....some of the creeks had burst their banks & it was going in every ... read more

I started at 8am and got the ferry to russel then it was allk go. Was a dam hard day on the bike but i followed the coast the wole way. There were some day good views along then way but couldnt be fucked getting the camara out. Iwas feeling real sick by mind after noon i put it down to dehydrateion i spewed me guts up twice and had a sleep on the side of the road. Ive got to get a better set up for me water. I stoped about 2ks from the highway and sleeped in a dry water way nexted to the road i got 77ks 14kav and sleeped like alog. The nexted day i got doing and had a real crack at it witch i paid for by the time i ... read more

DAY1-To day i started the course, there were 2 other people doing it both german Max and Sherna. The instructor is Jazz a local girl and seemd to know what shes doing so thats good. Day 1 wasa just paper work and a real boring video it just went for ever. But i have to say the worst thing is the getting up at 7am after traveling a while thats had to do. DAY2-We done paper work in the morning and another video. We spent the rest of the arvo in the pool witch was still shit it would of only been 1.5mt deep so you couldnt even get down low enough. But even so we done all the tests and basics it was all pretty stright foward probley helps that i have spent alot of ... read more

Karo Farm Hostel is a place you go and just dont want to leave. When i got there before i even put me bike down the chat was on. Steparno is an itilian and his wife is kiwi they are the nicest friendy people ive meet so far this trip. They made me feel right at home. Stefarno is a mad keen football (soccer) there flags and trophys posters, i reaken he has ever ps3 and xbox football game. He has even gone to the extent of makeing his own half size football pitch. He just had to push in to the farm nexted door for that. Hes got spotlights for night games and his nexted project if for a grand stand. Every night and i mean ever night they played a game of football 2 ... read more