Bay Of Islands och Cape Reinga
We arrived in Bay of Islands friday and went straight out on a dolphinboat! Saw loads of dolphins right away and it was so amazing! We didn't get to swim with them because they had babies with them and it's illegal to swim with dolphins in New Zealand if they have little ones with them.
Cool huh!? They swam right by us for a long time.
Did you know that if the dolphinmother looses her baby she carries her babys body on her back until it's fully decomposed?
Saturday we went to Cape Reinga, the most northen point of New Zealand. According to Māori mythology(the native New Zealanders) Cape Reinga is the spot where all the Māori people spirits go when they die. If you see the lighthouse in one of the pictures below, that's where their spirits take off. If you have been a good spirit you will have wings and fly off, but if you have been a bad spirit you will fall in the ocean at cape reinga and the seamonsters will take you.
On our way back to Bay of Islands we had two stops, the first one at this beach to take a swim(jealous anyone??):
And the second stop was at these sanddunes to go sandboarding!
Can you imagine that I went sandsurfing from the top? Crazy!!
Today(sunday) im going to Auckland again for one night there. Monday morning the Kiwi bus takes us to Mercury Bay where I will stay for 1 or 2 nights. Now I am traveling on my own since Elin is staying here in Bay of Islands a couple of days more.
Cool huh!? They swam right by us for a long time.
Did you know that if the dolphinmother looses her baby she carries her babys body on her back until it's fully decomposed?
Saturday we went to Cape Reinga, the most northen point of New Zealand. According to Māori mythology(the native New Zealanders) Cape Reinga is the spot where all the Māori people spirits go when they die. If you see the lighthouse in one of the pictures below, that's where their spirits take off. If you have been a good spirit you will have wings and fly off, but if you have been a bad spirit you will fall in the ocean at cape reinga and the seamonsters will take you.
On our way back to Bay of Islands we had two stops, the first one at this beach to take a swim(jealous anyone??):
And the second stop was at these sanddunes to go sandboarding!
Can you imagine that I went sandsurfing from the top? Crazy!!
Today(sunday) im going to Auckland again for one night there. Monday morning the Kiwi bus takes us to Mercury Bay where I will stay for 1 or 2 nights. Now I am traveling on my own since Elin is staying here in Bay of Islands a couple of days more.
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