Back in Paradise
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Wed 4 Mar 2009 19:24
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35:14.18S
174:10.21E
Hi Folks ,
Well we are on the briny again, we left on the
tide, its just like our old berth on the Hamble, we are up another river, this
time its the river Kawakawa, the tide rips down here just as is does in the
Hamble , as we don't have an outside berth we have to be careful when arriving
and departing, thankfully we use our trusted bow thrusters, the Z boat and 8 hp
outboard to push her nose around to manover out and in, its a bit tight, our
length is nearly the width of the opening.
Our crew on this trip were Trevor, Sonja and
York, they are up from Wellington for the week, a short one at that as the
weather is due to close in on Wednesday with another howler out of the SE
.
Anyway we left on a bright sunny afternoon for
Roberton Island, another of the bays that Cptn Cook visited, these have been
quite a few along our travels, I can recall at least two in French Polynesia we
have been to that he visited, after clearing Veronica channel we put the
foresail up and wafted along on the breeze to our overnight anchorage, we
arrived at 14:30 dropped the hook, newly galvanised into 15m of water,
turned off the engine and looked around the tranquil bay, just three boats,
Trevor and York dropped the Z boat in and went exploring ashore, the rest
of us just lounged and read our books, a wonderful start to the short cruise,
meanwhile York who had forgot his wet suit jumped into the briny in his skiddys,
Trev however took the sensible route and put his wet suit on, although it was
reported to be warm !
About beer o/c the dolphins appeared at the
headland of the bay, we sat on the back deck with our newly acquired folding
chairs and sank a few beers whilst watching the dolphins catch there supper, a
slap up meal to follow we all retired for the night tired from a hard days sail
at the helm !
The contented Wellys
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