We had about a week to get ready to head to the island permanently. This not only required packing up everything, but tying up any loose ends and attempting to buy enough food to last a few weeks. While we were busily getting everything sorted out, we took two days off to travel south to Rotorua and catch up with some friends. While there, Dan, Cara and Colby went down the Kaituna - one of the best rafting rivers in the world. Colby is training as a raft guide in Rotorua, so they got to go down the river with him. I chose not to, for various reasons!
A fern in Dan's mum's backyard.
Some pretty flowers...
I fell asleep and apparently Nikau joined me for a nap!
This is one of the waterfalls on the Kaituna - Dan and Cara and Colby are in the boat!
This is the big drop!!! The boat totally submerges after the drop for a couple seconds! Scary!!!
The boat returning to the surface with Dan poking his head out
Back in Thames - the car all packed up and ready to go - with our back suspension hardly there at all. Yikes
Nikau was sad we were leaving
Sitting on the ferry at 5AM in Auckland Harbor waiting to leave...
The sea!
After spending about 1.5 hours seasick - thankfully not emptying the contents of my stomach - but so ready to get off the ferry.
After 14.5 hours on the ferry, as we pulled into Port Fitzroy (our final destination) we had a family of dolphins playing in front of the boat! This is the mom and dad, the baby was on the other side! They swam with us all the way into the harbor, and then went fishing around the boat as we unloaded.
We arrived in Karaka Bay just in time for a beautiful sunset!
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