White Island

White island is basically a volcano out to sea. It's one of 2 active volcanoes in NZ and the largest off shore volcano in the world! We took a boat trip there from a place called Whakatane, we spent a couple of days there as the wind was too bad for us to do the boat trip on the first day, so we had a bit of an all-dayer instead!!

So, it was a 1 1/2 hour journey to White Island and on the way we saw a couple of pods of dolphins, which was cool! When we got to the island we had to don hard hats and gas masks, as the gasses coming out at places was awful! There was a 2 hour tour around the island which is smoking and bubbling all over the place. It's constantly monitored and could potentially erupt at any time! The island was very dramatic and it was a good day out.