The Octopus gets a vacation.

I apologize for all the time I have been away from my blog. In all honesty, I have been extremely busy with school and my new job, and havn't done anything worth posting about... until now. It's fall break here at AUT, so the octopus, Heather and I decided to take a wee vacation over to the island of Waiheke. It's about a 40 minute ferry ride away. It's a beautful lush island with lots of nature trails, quaint boutqiues and beaches! (However, the buses only run once an hour, so if you miss them, you end up taking walking trails around the island... which end up being alot of hills and stairs!). We stayed at the Bioshelter backpackers, a hostel that prides itself on being environmentally friendly. It's got a very unique design, and looks more like a Bali resort on the inside. Probably the most notable room in the whole hostel is the toilet, which is rather unqiue! Each room has several beds in it, but as it was not busy, we got a room to ourselves! We spent the day familiarizing ourselves with the small town of Oneroa, and especailly familiarizing ourselves with the beach! (It's a hard job, but somebodies got to do it) Waiheke is very much a vacation island, so every cove seemed to have boats tied up in it. We spent the afternoon snorkeling, and collecting sea shells. We finished the day off enjoying a pizza on a beach front bistro!

The next day brought warm sunny weather. We decided to do some more swimming. This time, we hiked around the north tip of the island to Ray island. It's not accesible by road, so we had the entire beach to ourselves. We spend hours looking through the tidepools, and swimming in the crystal clear waters. We then decided to call it a day, and took the ferry back to Auckland. A short vacation, but relaxing none the less.