Its sooooo relaxing, seriously, no adrenalin at all. You kind of don't realise you're suspended 1200ft above sea level whilst anchored to a fast boat, you feel like you're floating, like when I went hot air ballooning, its so quiet and chilled out.

Then they reel you in, dip you in the water and get you back aboard ready for the next person to go floating off into the air.

The initial plan here was to meander down the coast to Matapouri which is a beach Kama used to go to when she was little but over the last few months she'd been having these, like, nausea/aniety attacks and she started having one now. She describes its as sort of like being hungover and being in a moving vehicle isn't the best thing for her so we missioned it down to Tutukaka with a quick stop at the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa.

And yes, they really are just... well... bogs init. But at least they flush which is a definate step up from the long drops I was becoming accustomed to. There's a queue to use them though, I haven't had to queue for toilets outside of a night club since Brighton Pride when you had to start queuing for the portaloo at least 20 minutes before you even thought about needing to piss.

We got to Tutukaka where Kama decided she wanted to go home the next day. I was booked in for diving and said I'd drive her back once I was back but she decided to get her mum to come and fetch her instead. It didn't help that we were kept awake half the night by some NZ bird I can't spell or pronounce that has oversized feet and sounds like someone is strangling it.

Someone does need to bloody strangle it an all.

written by  Koala Bear on January 8, 2009 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Tiny Little NZ Road Trip
tagged RoadTrip and Northlands
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Its called a Pukeko, http://www.richard-seaman.com/Birds/NewZealand/CommonForest/PukekoWithOneLegRaised.jpg

written by  Kama on January 10, 2009

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