Blogs from Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 69

Yanis send me this picture, but there one year that the picture has been taken. We can see ohoon, one of my 2 best friends at this time (so with Yanis), in a kind of dance, while I'm dreamin', again, about something not deep at all, I'm sure of that... It was the time where we went everytime it was possible fishing, and we get sometimes big fishes that we cook during the night.... Without worries, bro, of course.... I was for sure playin' gypsy jazz on this photo ! one time again...... read more

To kill some time before headin down to Dunedin, we headed up to the bay of islands and 90 mile beach!... read more

After an overnight sail from Auckland, the ship anchors in Bay of Islands on a partly-cloudy morning. Our breakfast entertainment is a school of dolphins playing in the bay. They leap out of the water, their shiny bodies glistening in the morning light. Then, they dive under the water and back out, this time jumping over each other in the air. What a show! We continue our breakfast on the balcony watching the bay slowly come to life with all types of pleasure boats starting out for a day of fun. Many of them come close to our ship to check us out and there is much waving back and forth. Alan and I take the tender to Russell, a quaint town of timbered buildings. Large trees with long leafy branches shade the pebbly beach. There ... read more

Having a great time in the Bay of Islands. Got here on Thursday and it was raining (first rain we had seen for ages) so we had a pretty quiet afternoon. Just made a brief trip into the town centre and the supermarket. Yesterday we went on a cruise of the Bay which was great. As well as a cruise it was a dolphin spotting trip and I am pleased to say we saw loads. We were very lucky on the dolphin spotting front as people we spoke to yesterday only saw two. We saw several pods. The first type of dolphins we saw were bottle nose dolphins. They kept swimming right up to the boat and jumped out of the water several times. I never realised that they were quite so big (they can get ... read more

Hi all, We are back on land after a fantastice three day cruise on the bay of islands. We had a grat time sailing (not so much because the wind was lite), fishing, kayaking, exploring islands and eating more food than should be legal. Now we are heading for Waitomo to explore glow worm caves. Yes you heard right, the caves have worms in them that glow in the dark. Last week we were staying at a hostel called the tree house in Kohukohu. They were letting us work an hour a day in exchange for free accomodation, that was a sweet deal. During teh week we went to some fantastic hot springs called Ngawha springs and we hiked for a couple of housrs in the giant Kauri trees. All in all out travels are going ... read more