Me, Danny and James got up about 10 to go grab some breakfast. We were quite gutted as Maccies and Burger King had stopped breakfast at half 10 so we missed it! We found an Irish bar around the corner from the first hostel we stayed in in Auckland and got ourselves a full english (the first I had had since arriving in NZ!)
The 3 of us made our way up to IEP to book our Shark Cage experience at Kelly Tarleton's Underwater Adventure (or something like that). It cost $49 each which converts back to pound sterling at about 23 quid, bargain like!
We went back to the hostel and got changed and hopped in a taxi towards mission bay to do the shark cage. We had about an hour to spare before the sharks so we had a little wonder, looking at the penguins, sea turtles, eels, stingrays and other fish things. It was all very interesting but we just wanted to get in with the sharks. At 2.55pm on the dot we were escorted behind the scenes to get in our wetsuits, mask and snorkel and sign a form basically signing our life away to the sharks.
There was a guy called Pablo from mexico in our cage aswell, he looked just a little bit scared aswell!
We were in the cage for about 20mins with the sharks and other fish. It was so cool and luckily Danny had an underwater camera so we could catch it all in photo. Unfortunately theres about 2 good pictures of the sharks and 10 of us in the water haha.
There were handles under all around the cage so we could go underwater fully for a few seconds and take it all in. It was abit un-nerving when the cage was made out of nets!
We got out the water all with beaming smiles on our faces! I'm not sure if it was because we had swum with sharks or we were in a hot shower! the sharks water was pretty cold!
Again I had to leave early so I could get back for my bar course. I got back the room and found that Emily hadn't been out of bed all day, lazy shit!
Danny was taking Emily up the sky tower for a meal again so we all agreed to meet for a few drinks afterwards again.
I learnt a few more cocktails (the sour ones like Cosmo, Margerita, White Lady, Kamikaze, Whisky Sour and so on, pretty easy really)
Me and James grabbed a Dominoes for dinner before heading to the Fat Camel for drinks.
There were loads of people there and luckily James knew them all from the Rangutoto trip so I got to know quite a few more people. After a couple of hours we departed for somewhere to carry on the night. The mass of people had split up in about half. There was Me, Danny, James, Emily, Lotte from Denmark, Juliana from Sweden, Wade from Canada, Aaron from Ireland then another Canadian, 2 german, another bloke from England and another girl but I can't remember where from.
We went to an Irish bar for a few more drinks which ended up lasting til 2 in the morning! Me and Lotte ended up challenging eachother to game of who could get the most kisses in the bar. By the time we had to leave it was 12-12 so being the gentleman I am, I gave her one on the cheek and accepted defeat.
We went back the hostel to make a plan as none of us wanted to call it a night. The call was to grab some 'Goon' (really cheap potent white wine) and head for Albert Park, Classy. In the end only Me, Wade, Juliana and Lotte went as the others sobered up and got tired!
After an hour or so lying on the grass drinking shit wine, singing songs and telling stories from adventures back home, me and Lotte called it a night and let the other 2 carry on on our behalf.
I've woke up this morning with a banging headache, that Goon really is strong shit!
Hopefully the beach trip today should sort my head out, I canni wait!
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