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Started my travels proper today - got picked up at stupid o' clock in the morning by the mini Stray bus and our driver, Gollum... He was good enough to stop off at random places to show us things like a funky treehouse...and pink sheep... He even managed to keep a straight face while telling us in all seriousness that they were pink because they were strawberry and raspberry flavour ;D
We also stopped off in Kawakawa on the way up to see the Hundertwasser toilets - for some reason, busloads of tourists pulling up in a carpark to take pictures of the public dunnies doesn't seem particularly strange here...
The weather was still fantastic when we got to Pahia - a small town on the east coast in the Bay of Islands. We all went on the cruise (seeing as it was included in our bus travel pass) out to the Hole in the Rock and to find dolphins - and we found them!!! I ended up lying on the bows to get some shots, and could see them swimming underneath us - some of them even jumped clear out of the water. The water was incredibly clear and an unbelievable green-blue - the kind of colour you see on adverts and think 'that's got to be photoshopped!' - nope!
As we were coming back it started to get a bit cloudy, but that's the first time in five days, so I think I'm doing pretty well!
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