Today was a very boring day as we did heaps of driving. We drove from Rotorua to Auckland (the largest city in New Zealand) where we dropped off most of the people on the tour. It was quite a sad farewell actually as I got along with everyone so well! I wasn’t ready for them to go. The 6 of us who were staying on the tour went and had lunch together, and when we came back we gained 15 new people. It was very weird to be with totally different people, it was not the same. We kept driving for what seemed like forever (with many stops along the way) before finally reaching the Bay of Islands. That evening we went on a leisurely stroll into town, had some thai food for dinner and then wandered a bit more. It was a very small town, not much to do. We stopped at a bar at a backpackers place to try and get to know the new people some more but they were only there for like 20 minutes before going to bed. We went to bed shortly thereafter as we had an early start the next morning.
Saturday November 28
This morning we got up early to do some dolphin spotting! We knew we may POSSIBLY have the opportunity to go swimming with them as well if everything fell perfectly. We saw heaps of dolphins, most of them were in feeding mode so they were scattered everywhere. We saw a couple of different pods of dolphins in the area. It was so neat, they let you hang your head off the front edge of the boat (don’t worry there is something to hold you so you don’t fall in) so you could see the dolphins at the front bow riding and also the ones under the boat. Unfortunately because they were feeding at one time, and another pod had a baby with it we were not allowed to swim with them. They have to be all adults to be able to swim with them. It was still a wonderful experience though! That afternoon we just wandered the town a bit more, and layed on the beach for a bit. Unfortunately it wasn’t exactly the warmest day ever, and the sun kept hiding so laying on the beach was short lived. Being our last night, we sat around and had a couple hours of bonding and reminiscing about the fun we had on our trip. It was actually quite a good time!
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