Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Blogpost Number 84

Sorry I really couldn't think of a decent title so here is a quick update regarding the various activities I have been involving myself in over the last week or so.

I have come to the realisation that time is running out, I now have only 11 weeks left, half of which will be spent on a highly anticipated south Island tour and hopefully a trip to Australia. So I have started hitting a few of the hotspots and taking up a few of those extra curriculum activities. My new favourite sport is tennis, closely followed by surfing. Both are completely new to me and highly enjoyable.

As for places, I have visited interestingly named areas such as: Whakatane,

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Matamata, (no pictures)

Tauranga

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and Napier.

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Next week is a trip to the coromandel peninsula widely regarded as one of New Zealands most beautiful locations. Recently its beaches have been visited by a large number of bronze whaler sharks and whilst they are not man eaters it may be wise to scratch the aforementioned surfing off of the activities list...

Sharks bask in shallow water at Coromandel's Matarangi sandbar. Photo / Vicky Broadbent

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah... it's cold and wet here... and dark. You bastard.
:-)

Anonymous said...

11 weeks to go huh, thats come round pretty fast. Still 11 weeks equates to two and a half months and thats still a substantial amount of time.
Like the Prez says it is cold, wet, dark and exceptionally depressing back here in this worthless dump of a country.
Have as much fun as you possibly can (and sleep with as many girls as you can because they'll probably never work out who the dad is and by the time you're back the CSA will have become a spent force)