One last trip to the beach the morning Tiffany flew back to the states:
Well here’s another blog post in keeping with my current trend of infrequent unsubstantial posts. I’m finally back out cruising, but I’ve been in New Zealand so long and it’s so similar to my own culture that I’m not particularly inspired to write too much. When I last updated the blog, I had just got back to Whangarei with Tiffany. It was just a few days before Tiffany had to fly back to the states and she really wanted to get a tattoo to commemorate her time here before she left. So we checked out the two places in Whangarei, but had no luck. It was too last minute, but one of the guys recommended a place in Auckland. So the day before Tiffany flew home, we went down to Auckland with the idea for Tiffany to get a Tui tattooed on her somewhere. The Tui is a endemic bird of New Zealand with a striking white tuft under their throat, and a metallic blue, green, brown and black color scheme to the rest of them. They can mimic other birds, and we even came across one with quite the English vocabulary in Whangarei. Probably most impressive is that they’ve got a beer named after them. So it’s pretty fair to say that the Tui, not the Kiwi is the coolest bird in NZ and a fine subject for a new tat. Fortunately the artist in Auckland outdid herself and came up with a great design mixing in a bit of Maori design with otherwise accurate depiction of the bird. So Tiffany got her Tui, we stayed the night with Arek and Iwona one more time, hit a west coast beach on the way to […]
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