Paul and I motored out of Kawau Island on the 6th of February, we were a bit rusty on a few of the procedures for getting ready for a sail, we had a fail on the raising of the dinghy to the deck. But it all worked out in the end. We motored out to the Rosario Channel and then we put some sail up in the increasing SE wind, by the time we got halfway to Tiri tiri Matangi Island the wind had piped up to gusts of 30knots and the sea state had built up with the 1.5 metre swell with wind chop on top. We made it around Whangaparoa Peninsular without mishap and the sea's and wind died down to a more comfortable state. We decided to head up the Rangitoto Channel to Rangitoto Island for the night so we navigated our way through the maze of weekend fisherman, having to drop sail for safety purposes. We motored into Islington Bay by about 1615.
7th of Feb saw us scaling the heights of Rangitoto, and extinct Volcano just off Auckland. After a look from the summit and an explore of the Lava caves, we started the trek back to the boat via the coastal walk track, this took 2 hrs and was hot and rugged, so a swim was definitely called for when we got back.
The photo's show the mid point of the Lava cave that we went through, we had to have head torches for this, and the other is the track through some of the lava flows, which still do not have regenerated bush on them after 800 years.
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