Norfolk Island

Spindrift
David Hersey
Mon 20 Oct 2008 23:56
21/10/08 8:30

We hired a car and drove around most of the island yesterday. Norfolk is
about 3 x 5 miles and is like a giant manicured park. It is the originasl
source of Norfolk Pines which are everywhere. The roads are all paved.
The lawns are all well kept. There are hundreds of cows wandering about.
It was discovered by Captain Cook and the picture after his monument is
where they reckon he landed. There are vegetable stalls “in the country”
which are unattended with a price list and you simply leave the money.
We found a really interesting potter/painter and bought a couple of her
pieces. Just as they did in Pitcairn she gave us bananas and oranges for
the boat. The Bounty mutineers and their descendants were forcibly
resettled here but some of them eventually went back to Pitcairn. We
think it was a bad call as life here is much improved over Pitcairn. They
have benefited from a WW II runway.
There is no harbour as such. A bay in the North (where we are) has a
dingly/small boat jetty as does Sydney Bay in the South. So you get some
shelter from most winds, but it was a very rolly night. Steve wants to
play 9 holes of golf and
I will go to a cyber café as they call it and send this and a few
pictures. We will eat ashore tonight and probably leave around 9pm.
Opua ia about 500 miles and should take 3 ½ days or so. The wind had
already clocked around to the NE and is forcast today to be around 10
knots, increasing tomorrow.

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