Finally finished work and the two of us are off for our proper travels starting with Bay of Islands and the North of the North Island. We headed up to Pahai for a bit of Dolphin swimming and spent the day on a boat cruising around the Bay of Islands hunting for some dolphins. Unfortunatley we didn't come across any dolphins but Nicola did find another hole in a rock to add to the collection! We found out later that there were Orca whales in the area which mean...

Back to Hamilton and its raining and 14 degrees cold!! 2 weeks left of work...

Bula from Fiji!! Which means hello in Fijian! We arrived in lovely sunny Fiji and met up with Yvonne for our girly holiday and rest from the hard job of travelling the world!! We headed out to the island Mololo sailing past beautiful white sand, palm tree lined islands on clear blue water! Walu Beach our resort for 7 days was brilliant! The hardest thing we had to do all week was decided what to have for lunch and whether to read or sleep by the pool...

Bula from Fiji! Which is hello in Fijian, we learnt that one pretty quick as everyone says it ALL the time!! Have spent a fantastic 10 days on the island of Mololo where we met up with Yvonne and had a great girly holiday! Resort was amazing - clear blue water, white sand, blue sky - perfect! We're very jealous of the people who get to live there all the time! The most stressful part of our day was deciding what to have for lunch or whether to sleep or read ...

It is a good job that we can laugh at ourselves as the only way to describe these photos is 'high'ly amusing! Yes, we did jump out of a plane from 15,000 feet and we would do it again..... Wore very attractive red jump suits then sat for 20 minutes in the plane strapped more tightly to a man than should be allowed! As we exited the plane a wall of freezing air was pummelled into us and knocked any scream out of our mouths. We fell to the ground at 200km an h...