When we arrived at Bay of Islands, we had a dolphin escort into the bay. This region has over 144 islands and small bays, the Bay itself being a natural harbor . James Cook discovered and named New Zealand in 1769. The Maori name for it is Aotearoa, meaning "Land of the long white cloud".
We took this large catamaran on a trip to the "hole in the rock" plus some sightseeing in and out of the bay. It was pretty rough part of the way and we had some 'motion' casualties. We spent most of the time up on top but when it became really rough, the captain ordered us all inside.
Here's the Hole ... we sat outside it for a while because the ocean was pretty high but we did sail through it, then watched as another small boat followed us in.
On the other side, we found a very small private fishing boat - he was being tossed around severely and left soon after we got there - smart man!
This shows the rough seas as we were waiting right outside the 'hole' - it almost looks like a whirlpool - it was windy and bouncy in the cat. but it was still lots of fun.
This is the harbor in the little town of Russell - where we were taken from our ship. We didn't have much time to look around, unfortunately, and on our cat. ride we stopped at small island for refreshments before sailing back to Russell. We were all pretty windswept and chilled, so we took the next tender back to the Paul Gauguin.
While waiting to depart, I spotted this jetboat zooming back to port. While we were out on the cat, we saw a few of these boats, loaded with passengers who must have been freezing! We'd already been on a jetboat by that time so we were happy to stay with the cat.
When we arrived at Bay of Islands, we had a dolphin escort into the bay. This region has over 144 islands and small bays, the Bay itself being a natural harbor . James Cook discovered and named New Zealand in 1769. The Maori name for it is Aotearoa, meaning "Land of the long white cloud".
We took this large catamaran on a trip to the "hole in the rock" plus some sightseeing in and out of the bay. It was pretty rough part of the way and we had some 'motion' casualties. We spent most of the time up on top but when it became really rough, the captain ordered us all inside.
Here's the Hole ... we sat outside it for a while because the ocean was pretty high but we did sail through it, then watched as another small boat followed us in. 
On the other side, we found a very small private fishing boat - he was being tossed around severely and left soon after we got there - smart man!
This shows the rough seas as we were waiting right outside the 'hole' - it almost looks like a whirlpool - it was windy and bouncy in the cat. but it was still lots of fun.
This is the harbor in the little town of Russell - where we were taken from our ship. We didn't have much time to look around, unfortunately, and on our cat. ride we stopped at small island for refreshments before sailing back to Russell. We were all pretty windswept and chilled, so we took the next tender back to the Paul Gauguin.
While waiting to depart, I spotted this jetboat zooming back to port. While we were out on the cat, we saw a few of these boats, loaded with passengers who must have been freezing! We'd already been on a jetboat by that time so we were happy to stay with the cat.
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