Flamingos in Celestún
Baywatch at Malibu beach
Vancouver Island
I didnt had sleep that night because I was hanging out with my Vancouver friends. One of them gave me a lift to Vancouver island and the ferry. We left Vancouver at 4:00am to be early in line at the ferry. I was soooo tired. Then I arrived in Victoria. Its a very touristic town with a little harbour. This weekend they had the dragon boat races. Was fun to watch. The backpackers I will stay this night is the Victoria Backpacker. I cant recomand it becuase the stuff is really unfriendly, its loud and noisy. You share the room with 19 other people and I heard about theft. I thought I will stay not longer than one night in Victoria so I booked this whale watching trip. Its a rip-off. It cost me about CAN$ 72 and basically we all had the change seats because there where not enough on the boat. So better next time: use the small boat where everybody is seated. I used the big one because they recommanded it to me for doing photos. Finally yes we saw one orca. But we didnt came close at all…
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I went from the 28th to the 31st of march on a four days liveabord trip with the “Manta Queen”. We started at Khaolak. Everyday we are supposed to do three dives that makes 14 dives at all. Read the rest of this entry »
Feeding dolphins and watching dugongs
In Denham I shared a room with Kim from Holland. We came along quite well and so we decided to go together today to Monkey Mia for feeding the wild dolphins. Monkey Mia is famous for its dolphins who come every morning for picking up some fish. I insisted to feed them and meanwhile Kim did the photo of me feeding the dolphins. After that we did a catamaran tour for 2 hours for seeing the rare dugong. Oh that tour was beautiful even it was a little chilly sometimes. As well we met Duncan and Dominic. They were british and had bought a van so after the catamaran trip we joined them on their drive to “Eagles Bluff” a nature reserve for watching the sharks from above.
Abel Tasman National Park
The Blue Lagoon at Nanuya Lailai
Today morning I went diving at the Blue Lagoon. The dive site was called ‘Tom’s Tumb’. I’ve heard that in this area are many dead corals and it is not worth to dive there. But I really wanted to know if that is true. And yes, it was. Its was too expensive (F$ 100 for one dive) and you will see less things alive and a big graveyard for corals, everything gray and demolished. But in 18m dept I found the most beautiful Kauri shell ever. After being back for lunch I produced a coconut bracelet. The Israelis left to Naviti where I want to go the next day for going diving at the ‘Manta Ray Resort’. I phoned immediately with ‘Coconut Bay Resort’ and there were still beds available (funny: two days ago they say it was booked out). In the afternoon I went with Lisa from California to the Blue Lagoon for snorkeling. In the evening I had some Kava and played some games. Could only take a few pictures since I only had some left on my quick snap cam… Too bad my SLR had dropped into the water and didn’t work…
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The East Cape Lighthouse
On the way to Gisborne we stopped at the wonderful East Cape were you can visit the lighthouse. It was worth it but you have to climb about 700 stairs up to the top of the hill were the lighthouse is.
Finally the last stop of this trip was Gisborne. A town with big harbor and the most east town of the world. The people here are the first who welcome the new year and of course the new morning.
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…till dawn
Tired at 5:00am in the morning I was looking forward to watch the most beautiful sunrise I had ever seen. It was breath taking. Everything was touched of red sunlight.
At 9:00am I should meet Doug (www.whalesanddolphin.co.nz) for a trip with boat to swim with the dolphins. This was my big wish and I thought this day will be the day. Unfortunately I saw not even one dolphin or whale. Just seals and penguins. But Doug invited me for another try. But all in all the trip was wonderful. The boat was as fast as a speedboat and feels like that when it jumped over the waves.
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