Paihai, New Zealand

Well, after some very exhausting days of doing nothing, I've finally managed to do some of the many activities offered here in Paihai. Yesterday, I took a boat to go swimming with dolphins. While we found tons, we couldn't get into the water because there were calves present. Poopy luck, but it was fun to watch them play. They were in a fiesty mood and were jumping out of the water, all over the place. Today, I took a bus up to Cape Reinga, one of the most Northern points in the country, where the Pacific and the Tasman Sea meet. It was a bit cloudy though, and the fog rolled in so there wasn't so much to see. Oh well. I've run into several people that I've met before during the last few days. One guy, Wayne, we eventually figured out that we'd met in the Hobart library last month. I just ran into another girl from Hobart about an hour ago, and the real kicker is there's a girl working here in Paihai who was also working in Val d'Isere the same season I was there. That one takes the cake for me. Anyway, I think that I'll be heading back down to Auckland tomorrow, it's nice here, but I'm ready to move on and see a bit more of NZ.