Goat Island

No Goats in Sight, Only Seaweed

Thursday, March 20th
Once again a group of us (Maggie, Jenna, Ryan, Dave, Pat, Mickey, Avery) rented a mini van and headed off to Goat Island. We were all excited to spend the day snorkeling with the fish, however, when we arrived an hour later we were informed that the water was too murky and there was too much seaweed to have any visibility. We climbed onto the rocks and stinky seaweed to check it out ourselves but we had no luck. As the boys kept swimming around searching for fish, Jenna and I headed back to the car. This man named Martin, a local kiwi, had us take photos of him. We kept talking with him for awhile and he suggested that we check out Pakiri Beach just down the road. The sand at this beach was super soft and felt like beaches back home. It was the warmest water we had swam in too! The scenery of the beach was beautiful and when the sun started to set we climbed on top of the dunes. To make the day a little more surreal, there was a horseback rider along the water. After riding home with basically an empty tank of gas (the gas light was on for at least half the ride) we stopped off at Pizza Hut. All 8 of us sat in the mini van each with our own box of pizza (one of the most ratchet things to be seen) and headed home after an exhausting, but exciting day.