Northlands - Day 7

So Kama was picked up and taken home and I headed out with Dive! Tutukaka to check out the Poor Knights Islands from underwater coz you're not actually allowed to set foot on them. As we were heading out and were being briefed on the marine life we could expect to see the boat jolted to a halt and a lad ran down the stairs shouting, "the skipper's just seen another hammerhead!"

Hammerhead?

ANOTHER???

Oh how very fucking comforting!

After spending a few minutes looking for it for a photo op the boat started up again and resumed the course to the Poor Knights.

Diving in cold water is really different to the warm, tropical water I learnt in. In Fiji I wore a very thin body suit in a rather fetching shade of pink with only a few weights on my belt. Here they kitted me out in a 7mm 2 piece wetsuit along with 12kg of weights. I had to get help to stand up and could hardly reach my feet to get my fins on. Once I was under water it was all good but dragging myself back onto the boat was a mission!

And I got bit by a fish! Food bit me! Poor Nights is a 100% protected marine reserve so I wasn't allowed to bite it back so I contented myself with giving it dirty looks. Its not like being bitten by a small fish hurts, I've been nommed on my small fish before, its just the surprise that they're brave enough to have a go.

The diving was awesome, shame about the pics. I'm still getting the hang of my novelty Straps To The Wrist underwater camera so most of my pics came out blurry. Terrible photography aside, I had a good day.

Afterwards I drove back to Auckland two days early on account of, amongst other things, the crap weather forecast.

And this is where me and Kama finish. That wasn't the plan but since when does anything go to plan? If everything went to plan I'd have been back in England 7 months ago. This time away, living in each others pockets has made us realise how different we are, how little we have in common and how differently we see every single aspect of life. I'd still like to try and make it work with her when I come back to Auckland but she doesn't want to. Maybe she's right. We're two different people from two different and apparently incompatiable worlds. Ah well, I'll keep getting involved with people who aren't right for me and I don't know why. Maybe because it keeps things interesting? Who knows? A friend of mine once told me there's only so many times something can break before it can't be fixed anymore and it looks like I'm on a mission to test that theory.

But anyway.

Life goes on and so does the Tiny Little Adventure Round NZ.

written by

Koala Bear on January 9, 2009 from Auckland, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Tiny Little NZ Road Trip

tagged RoadTrip and Northlands

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