I went to Great Barrier Island on the weekend. Its a big island out to the west from Auckland. Here it is from the air as we flew in. Its about the same size and population as Niue.
To get there you can go on the car ferry, which takes about 5 hours and crosses a fairly rough piece of sea. Or you can catch this tiny little plane.
Here's the plane again. Can't see it? Well it's the tiny dot below the top left cloud. Tiny being the important word. Seats 12, including the pilot, a passenger sits in the co-pilot seat. You can tell I'm not normally on such small planes, this one was quite something else. Noisy too.
And flying home right on sunset, we got an excellent view of all around Auckland. The thing with flying on such a small plane is that it flies really low, and you can see everything below, in perfect detail.
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