There has been a lot of bad weather bringing a northerly wind into Tindalls Bay, so I have moved across to a sheltered bay on Kawau Island for a few days.
Come for a swim
Gone fishing
Bird Shit
Jumping off the boat
Not much to do
Imagine is being advertised for sale on a few website, with only a few questions being asked. Nothing positive.
I have to stay around Auckland incase someone wants to have a look at the boat. This doesn’t stop me taking friends out sailing for a few days at a time. Sheryl has come out with me for a few days. We headed off to Otarawao Bay, where we spent last night. Now we are at Mansion House Bay Kawau. We have gone ashore to go explore the old Copper Mine.
Rigging
All good things come to an end
It has taken several weeks of deliberation to come to the decision that its time to sell Imagine.
Sailing the Pacific is getting harder as we get older. It’s time to give it up before I have a major injury and can’t do anything. Although the thought had been to give up blue water sailing and stick to sailing the eastern coast of Australia. I think it’s a good time to give up the sea and explore Australia by land.
I will finish off the planned maintenance and then put her up for sail. It has been great fun while it lasted, but it’s now time for a new adventure.
Thank you all for your support and reading about our travels. There may be a new blog about my 4×4 exploration of Australia.
Sailing the Pacific is getting harder as we get older. It’s time to give it up before I have a major injury and can’t do anything. Although the thought had been to give up blue water sailing and stick to sailing the eastern coast of Australia. I think it’s a good time to give up the sea and explore Australia by land.
I will finish off the planned maintenance and then put her up for sail. It has been great fun while it lasted, but it’s now time for a new adventure.
Thank you all for your support and reading about our travels. There may be a new blog about my 4×4 exploration of Australia.
What’s new
Those of you that check the blog every day will have seen it has been intermittently off line. This is because I have moved the site from the Canadian host server to one on Australia. This didn’t go as smooth as it should have. But it’s all sorted now.
Sabine and Jan joined us for a a short time. Their stay was cut short because Jan had scratched himself on coral while they were in Vanuatu a few days earlier. The scratches got infected and we had to get him to the doctors.
Back at Whangaparaoa
Thurday we were out of the wind and swell, tucked nicely in Farmer bay. B was able to finished off sewing the cushions on the starboard side of the saloon.
Friday we ventured out and around the corner to do some fishing. B caught a nice snapper for dinner, before we returned to Farmer bay where it was still more shelter from the wind and swell.
Sunday we moved to Motuketekete island where B was brave enough to swim in cold water ashore to collect more shells. If anyone has a spare 12 million dollars the island and its two bedroom cottage is up for sale.
Monday we made our way back to Tindalls Bay, Whangaparaoa. It took us a while as we had diverted our course to help a kayaker who had called on channel 16, asking for help as he fell in the water about 1 mile offshore of Army bay and couldn’t get back on his kayak. The coast guard arrived just in front us and so he no longer required our assistance.
In the afternoon we borrowed Darrens jeep to go to do some grocery shopping and in anticipation of high winds we moved across to Swan Bay for the night.
