With a few days to spare before heading back to oz, maria and i decided to book a 3 day trip to the bay of islands, for hopefully a bit of relaxing after our activity packed 6 weeks. On the way we stopped off at goat's island for a bit of snorkling. Weather not ideal for it but the water was suprisingly warm.

Our stay tour included a trip up to the very tip of New zealand, Cape Regina on this four wheel drive little bus that drove up on the '90 mile' beach (which is actually 64 miles long).

Sorry about the ridicolus pose!!

The driver also stopped off at some sand dunes were we had a go at some sand surfing. It was great fun, although climbing to the top of the sand dunes was really tiring and i think only a few of us managed to do it twice.

For our last day in New Zealand we decidied to do a full day kayaking trip, where you kayak up to some water falls and explore the bay of islands. Really good fun day, quite tiring on the arms but well worth it. and one point when the tide was low in the middle of this river i got beached and had to be hepled back out.

So back on the stray bus for the last time to travel back to Auckland ready for my 6:00 am flight back to Oz. Have to say i felt really sad leaving, i've absolutely loved it here and theres always the wonder of will i ever go back??. Probaly the best time of my life. However i remeber feeling the same when i left sydney so i knew it wouldn't be long until i'm back loving the australian way!! what worries me most is how am i gonna feel when i have to go home??? !!