One Of The Best Days. EVER.

We had our trip to White Island today, NZ's most active marine volcano, and it exceeded all expectations.

On the way to the volcano which is about 50 km off shore Whakatane, we saw a blue whale, and the skipper told us that it's fairly rare at this time of the year to see whales, and blue whales are apparently so rare that we could consider ourselves really lucky.

On the island, we had a strange unique amazing time, wearing hard helmets and gas masks because this was the only way to survive the sulphur smell of the crater and the other surroundings.

And as if all of this wasn't enough yet, we were accompanied by a large group of pilot whales on the way back to Whakatane, they literally followed our boat and posed for us. We shot almost 850 photos, a percentage of them will be up on FlickR as we speak.

And last but not least, we saw another blue whale close to Whale Island, a small island near Whakatane, and this time it was a really BIG one, skipper said approximately 90 feet.

All of this day will forever be burnt into our minds, hearts and souls. I am starting to wonder how much of these we will actually leave here.....

We love you, New Zealand. Every day a little bit more.