Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
Here goes... get comfy people.
So left my mum's friend's house at some unearthly hour on the 18th absolutely bricking it about being completely on my own and looking back I should really have appreciated the home comforts more that morning(little did i know that i'd be eating out of tins for the next 4 months). Coincidentally the moment i stepped off the bus i met two girls one of which was from Newbury, what a crazy small world!! Spent our first night in the BEAUTIFUL Bay of Islands, this is about 3 hours north of Auckland and is absolutely breathtaking, a quick check in to the hostel, (The Pipi Patch- for those of you who are bored enough to want to check it out, yes louise you), in short had a very unsuccessful 'swimming with dolphins' trip, yet again i'm too easily persuaded, of course a horrendous sunburn and 90 dollers poorer, there were no dolphins...good one katie.
From there we popped back to Auckland for the night and barely spent 5 minutes there before we were back on the kiwi bus heading south, this time with a different lot of people and driver(this will become relevant later) arrived at Hot water beach known for its hot springs on the beach, you can dig a hole in the sand and it's literally 62 degrees(not even my standard dramatism) it was pissing rain and frankly we weren't up for any beaching, boiling hot or not. By now we'd met two awesome geordie girls and all booked into our hostel room together(this was no normal hostel it was amazing hairdryers and everything-small things in life...). Later on we decided to take what we thought was a gentle stroll to Cathedral cove(featured in Narnia wow), after being reliably informed it was within an hour by the locals, oh how they mugged us off... 12 miles and 4 hours trecking/complaining/burning/becoming dehydrated later we arrived only to be told we had 3 minutes before the bus left back to the hostel, so we sprinted down(yes sean i ran) and successfully pissed off all the fellow travellers and driver resulting in us staying another night in Hot water beach to aviod contact with these people and also the prospect of a free days surfing with the lovely lifeguards down by the beach the following day(mum you would have gone 'what lovely boys' on seeing them). A day of beach bumming later and incredible fish and chips we set off south to Waitomo...
Wai meaning water and 'tomo' i have no idea alas we were still feeling the effects of our epic walk to be confronted by the option of 'black water rafting' not as tame as it sounds... in a wet suit looking awesome with rubber boots and a helmet you jump in a rubber ring and go caving and jumping off waterfalls in caves... not for the faint hearted. It was truly magical though as its home to "Gloworms" lava of flies effectively but they are beautiful and line the roof of the cave, you can almost see your way through in their light-amazing!!
Too much to say for one posy so another is to follow. Yes mum i'm eating well and alive and not spending too much money but off for a pub crawl now and am determined to not be more than an hour late-who am i kidding...
Speak soon for now. lots of love xxxxxxxxxx
- comments
Louise Wooster luff xxxxx