October 2, 2005 

And Come Back Another Day!……..

This is the most water I have ever seen fall out of the sky. For the last two days there has been a constant flow of rain with light letups at times. The winter can’t seem decide if it wants to turn its job over to Spring quite yet. It’s all right though, I’ve still been getting out on walks with the host family even though we come back absolutely soaked.

I’ll be heading up North soon. I booked a ticket today with a company called Magic Bus (www.magicbus.co.nz) that provides transport throughout the whole of New Zealand. The route I booked runs from Auckland to Paihai/Bay of Islands and back. The nice thing about it all is you can get on and off as much as you’d like
along the way, where you like. So I’m looking at stopping off in Opononi on the West coast to do a bit of tramping in the woods there and perhaps boogy-board on nearby sand dunes. Then head over to the East coast where the Bay of Islands are to see that and Haruru Falls.