Had a nice lie in due to Prohibition in Paihia. We strolled into the town and caught the ferry to Russell. I bought a lovely ice cream, had a few beers and bought a kiwi (called Russell incidently). At 5pm we boarded ‘The Rock’. The Rock is an overnight boat on the Bay of Islands. It’s a car ferry that has been converted to a house boat. A couple run it and it’s has a very chilled out relaxed atmostphere and the crowd with us was very nice and friendly. The had a shooting contest at the start of the trip to break the ice with everyone. We had to shoot a duck that was tied to the back of the boat with an air rifle. It may come as no surprise to you that I won this contest. You can take the girl out of Tallaght but you can’t take Tallaght out of the girl. It was difficult enough though, I am used to guns of the sawn off variety 
;) hehehehe. A small group of us went night fishing for snapper. I caught the first fish but he had to be thrown back because he was too small. The fishing was fantastic. I caught about 5 in total and only one was big enough to keep. Murpho caught the biggest one. We had them BBQ’d for dinner. The taste was amazing.
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