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Day 23 – Auckland

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Day 20 – Hot Water Beach & Cathedral Cove

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Day 19 – Waitomo Caves & Hobbiton

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Day 18 – Rotorua

The first thing we do in the morning is take another shower, hoping to get rid of that rotten egg smell. It only worked a little bit. We head out to this museum type place. It’s like one of the Maori tribe have turned their land into a tourist attraction. Our ticket includes a welcome […]

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Day 17 – Auckland to Rotorua

The car rental dealership was a half an hour walk from the airport hotel, we got small silver Suzuki. We drive three hours to Rotorua to our Airbnb to drop off our stuff and head to Hell’s Gate. As someone who has seen Old Faithful in Yellowstone and been to several thermal hot springs in […]

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Day 16 – Cairns to Auckland

We woke up early and get to the airport 3 hours before a domestic flight so we cannot go in yet BECAUSE ANTOINE IS PARANOID. We get to Sydney with no problem. Their main McDonalds has two levels, the top level is the kitchen and they have this machine that rotates, and the kitchen would […]

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Day 15 – Cairns

FINALLY A DAY TO RELAX. We find a brunch place to get fruits and smoothies, and a local market with Boba and local art pieces and vegetables. They sell bok choi and white Chinese cabbage at their farmers market, all we have in London are various potatoes and bad avocados. After we get back to […]

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Day 14 – Great Barrier Reef, back to Cairns

Antoine and I signed up for an adventure dive with Jen because with my PADI license, I can only go up to 18 meters deep, where as I would like to go deeper. One of my options is to get the advanced PADI license like the one Antoine has, or go on an Adventure Dive, […]

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Day 13 – The Great Barrier Reef Day 2

I have the option to do the early morning dive with Freddie and the other German girl or sleep, but since Antoine was doing a morning dive for his class anyways I got up to go with them. We get our gear on and jump into the water, something is wrong with the German girl […]

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Day 12 – The Great Barrier Reef

This is the big day, I do my first dive in the big ocean water, and we see the Great Barrier Reef. We pack up our stuff and walk the one minute distance to the office. We were early. The van eventually shows up and we hop in, it takes us to a boat. Because […]

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