Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Xaviers visit and beyond.

We did not make it to Roberton Island until Monday the 8th of February, but we had a lovely day with a picnic lunch on the beach, snorkelling and people watching. In all about 6 charter boats came in with passengers and disgorged them onto the island. The Bay of Islands is definitely the tourist spot to be, especially it seems for the young. Xavier stayed with us until Friday then headed off to Russell for a night, then back to Whangarei on Saturday. Paul and I restocked in Paihia, then headed off to Whale Bay on the Purerua Peninsular for a few days. We did a bit of snorkelling and discovered some really cool caves.

On Monday the 15th we decided to head to the Cavalli Islands, the wind was going to be on the nose but had been predicted to be light.......ha ha bloody haha. The wind piped up to 2o knots on the nose, with a 1.5 metre swell on the nose. After spending most of the day bashing into it we turned around and headed back to the Bay of Islands. On the up side we caught a lovely Tuna for tea. We anchored up near Pipi Bay on Moturoa Island, and spent two nights listening to the generator running inshore at the "holiday home" for the rich and famous. Yesterday we walked around the island (this was something we did about 6 or 7 years ago it was a breeze back then) boy was it hot, we decided that we have definitely aged since last time.

Today we have sailed over to Opunga Bay to get out of a 3 metre north easterly swell that is predicted (this is from a cyclone up in the Pacific Islands). We are holding off going north for the moment until we get a problem with our Propellor sorted. So in the Bay we will stay for the moment.

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