Day 5 - Gisborne

We awoke early to withdraw cash from an atm, and head back to Gisborne where we met Boyd for the shark cage excursion.  He was a personable guy, although
he seemed to be still recovering from the previous night himself; he ended up getting about 2 blocks down the road before realizing he had forgotten
his wallet.  The weather was very pleasant, being slightly overcast but not very windy, and the sea was pretty calm, although Boyd said that it was
frequently almost glassy in this area.  We headed out some way (15 miles) to find the sharks.  I was still feeling kind of bad from yesterday (and not
eating breakfast) but wasn't ill this time around.  Our vessel was quite small, and the shark cage consumed about half of it.  We threw the cage over the
edge and waited for the sharks to take the bait, and one appeared almost immediately.  Unfortunately, he was rather coy and disappeared quickly after I 
got in the water.

Soon, however, we attracted a number of other sharks, included several makos and eventually a blue shark.  Everyone got their turn in the water, even 
Ashley who seemed to be terrified of the whole ordeal, particularly the breathing underwater.  Unfortunately, Jen had forgotten her waterproof camera and
Ashley's proved to be somewhat less than waterproof.  Before we departed, one of the smaller sharks got ahold of the bait bag that I was guarding and I
ended up lifting him out of the water as I tried to get him off it.  Apparently my tone in addressing the shark was extremely hilarious to Jen, but despite
my pleas, I don't think anyone got any pictures of the whole thing.  The waterproof camera Ashley had brought had died by this point, so we didn't get any
underwater shots.

We returned to shore, and after a quick meal of fried chicken in Gisborne, we headed out on one of the longest drives in the trip to Palmerston North.
The New Year's party being over, supposedly over 20k people we trying to leave Gisborne at the same time, and indeed there was a fair amount of traffic on
our trip down, but nothing that could really be described as a traffic jam.  The trip was long and twisty, at least until we got to Napier, where things
leveled out and we journeyed through rolling hills and picturesque farms.  We stopped briefly in Ohane, which was very pretty, but perhaps on account of the
holiday was completely empty, giving it a very Children of the Corn vibe... we used the public restrooms and departed.

Towards the end of a trip we came upon a spectacular wind farm on the hills  outside of Woodville (should have been Windville, really, the wind was blowing 
in strong, sustained bursts) and pasted through a Manawatu gorge that was quite beautiful. On the other side of the gorge was Ashhurst, and then 
Palmerston North, a reasonably sized town where we stayed for the night.  There had been some confusion over our accomodations, but we ended up getting two 
separate rooms instead of one room with two bedrooms.  The rooms were excellent, and we had no real objections to this.  We ordered from Hell Pizza (hell.co.nz) 
and received some delicious pizzas, although the driver seemed vaguely offended at the whole concept of tip.  Unfortunately, the whole order didn't go through, 
and ended up short the largest pizza.  I had to go through town, located the pizza place, and get the additional pizza (we weren't double-charged for it, though.)