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Saturday 17th September<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, thank you to everyone that has left comments. We couldn’t get back to you until now. We now have internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seemed to take forever to get past Cape Reinga simply because now we have a point to fixate on. We made good time coming down the coast dodging the boats. It was strange seeing boats after 8 days of only seeing waves. It was daybreak by the time we had arrived in the Bay of Islands and tied up at the customs wharf at Opua. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customs\/ MPI didn’t arrive till 10am. They were very efficient checking everything sorting what food had to be disposed of etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as they left we refuelled. That was a mission. It was very tight in the marina, with a slight breeze blowing one way and the tide running the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once fuelled we went across to Russell for an early lunch and then moved and anchored opposite Paihia. Tony spent the afternoon organising his flights back to Australia, while Andrew spent the afternoon getting a sim card connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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