Now in our second day at the Sea Spray apartments in Paihia, Bay of Islands. Excellent facilities and just across the road from a nice beach of which we have made good use for swimming.
In general the vegetation is wonderful and the lovely lady wife is eulogising over a bright red tree (unknown variety but see photo) and the agapanthus which are everywhere
This evening we are heading off across the ferry to Russell to spend New Years Eve at a highly rated restaurant called Kamakura. Back on the ferry after midnight; I must have gone all romantic!
This morning we enjoyed a 4 hour cruise on the bay visiting most of the well known sites including the hole in the rock and yes we did see dolphins. The guy we bought our tickets from was a very pleasant ex pat and he was so delighted about the Ashes result that he gave us a 10% discount to which we were not really entitled. We stopped for around 45 minutes on Otehei beach on the island of Urupukapuka and surprise, surprise we swam again.
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