Still at Bay of Islands

The 3rd day is dolphin sighting day! These dolphins are worth many many hours of sleep. Just to go visit them, i had to burn alot of midnight oil to do my assignments. Anyway very excited. Got to the place at 9.05a.m.. thought we're 10 mins early. Turned out we are 5 mins late!! Got the time wrong. hahaha... Thank god we could catch the afternoon trip. Soooooo.. we decided to go to some waterfall near by for a picnic instead.

a 7 meters waterfall. Not too impressive in size but very noisy.

After getting there, we realise we dont have a nice place to picnic. too muddy everywhere. boooo.

Pretty scenes as usual

These golfers just play on the patch of grass beside the road where cars travel. So dangerous! Esp for the drivers. As we went by we were worried the golf ball just come smashing onto the windscreen.. Its too near. Set up a net or something! Nothing to do.. so we got on a ferry to Russell. Its just 5 mins away and supposedly the first town in NZ.

Long beach. where we finally had our picnic. Our picnic consisted of junk food basically. Potato chips and peanuts! haha.

This beach is suitable place for the whole family to hang out

Sweet old couple

Happy family.

Since we have nothing to sweet to do on the beach, we decided to be practical and dig for our dinner. Hahha... Ian, Aik Khoon and I found 1 live shellfish (dont know what shellfish) on the beach and got inspired to collect more and COOK IT! hahaha.. It was fun! managed to dig quite a few.. like 20? Due to time constraints got to leave the beach before we miss our dolphins again. If not we can set up a booth and sell shellfish.


Sadly, we suspected the shellfish all died by the time we got back to auckland. So we threw it away. :(



Next up, setting off for dolphins! Was secretly hoping we'll see whales as well but... yea, i'm too greedy.

And we spotted dolphins! Everybody on the cruise was so excited. Look!!

It was so close!

You could swim with the dolphins at a fee. But u got to be a very strong swimmer because you got to swim in the ocean and keep up with the dolphins. They just gave u flippers and those snorkling stuff and maybe a push into the ocean. So naturally.. ppl like me who have difficulties conquering the swimming pool... its best i just watch them swim. Quite funny.. like swimming competition. CATCH UP WITH THE DOLPHINS??? but there is only one Michael Phelps. ^^ There were not alot of dolphins. probably only 6 of them? Didnt manage to get shots of those dolphin stunts. They only jumped out of the water very briefly! After the dolphin encounter, we continued to sail to the "hole in the rock"

Cape Reinga. Where I was the day before.

Thats the hole in the rock!

We went right through it.

Thats another "hole in the rock" in the making. so when u come back like 20 000 years later you see another hole in the rock! :)

Tasman Sea/ Pacific Ocean. Dont know which one. But they are supposed to meet around this area.. So just randomly pick one to believe.

thats marks the end of our bay of islands trip. Back to Auckland.