Saturday 21st
We moved frm Opua to Russell where it was more sheltered in the quiet bay with only 20 boats. We didn’t know the Auckland to Russell boat race had started. It was about midnight when the first of the boats pulled into the Bay cheering and celebrating as they dropped anchor. Over the course of the night and into the morning the others arrived and shouting out to each other. By daybreak there were over 100 boats in the Bay. We could see it was going to be a party weekend, so we hauled anchor and zig zaged our way out of the bay. As we are going to head south when the wind changes on Tuesday, we started heading out of the bay of Islands. We ended up anchoring in Deep Water bay (the last bay in BOI before rounding Cape Brett for us to head South). This would give us shelter and a good head start on Tuesday.
It was only 2pm when we anchored, finally cheered up by the sun (after a week of grey sky and rain) and despite the 12 degrees water temperature on the intruments B couldn’t resist having a deep in the clear blue water (Anchoring in 8m depth water and we can still see the bottom). That was refreshing she said!
The rest of the day was as usual relaxing, playing cards and discussing what next need doing on the boat.
