Except the dolphins have buggered off.
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Except the dolphins have buggered off. Another day aboard the boat. Not so pleasant as the wind blew from the open sea and for much of the afternoon the anchorage was quite bumpy. With the wind more southerly it has also been colder. Not a lot of fun. The dolphins kept us company for most of the morning. I bet they’re looking forward to summer too. We’ve had enough laundry to warrant a wash each morning. While the generator is running we get hot air in the boat. You’ve got to have something to look forward to each day. We had a thought to go ashore for a walk but in the end we didn’t. It was nice just to kick back and read for the day. No chores for me but Helen spent some time cleaning down the starboard hull interior to protect it from mould while we are away. We had a few dolphins playing around the boat, some jumping, one playing with kelp. I tried to get a photo of a jumping dolphin but it was difficult and too cold outside to remain out there for too long. Sunset was pretty spectacular so I’ve included a picture of that. Not a lot else to say. I’ll leave you with a new video – from our last night at Likuri Island. A familiar song but Helen is more visible this time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1lkeXvu7mI[/youtube] We checked out of Marsden Cove Marina soon after the office opened and with a little help from some passers by we were off our slip and out into the river in no time. I’d uploaded our detailed tracks from last year and were able to follow them in via the ‘back entrance’ into Taurikura Bay where we anchored. We were last here on December 15th last year. The water, then, was 10F (5.5C) warmer. We ate lunch then prepped the dinghy to go ashore. We found a small beach round the corner which I figured would reduce the distance we had to walk to the trail head for the Mount Manaia climb. Sticking our feet in the water to tie the dinghy to a tree was a shocking experience and one we hope will improve rapidly. From there it was a comfortable walk of about a mile to the trail head. We climbed Mount Manaia last year when Sam and Ben were with us and we were accompanied by John from Sea Mist. Then, we’d already had a few hikes and were becoming conditioned to steep climbs. This time it’s our first real hike for a while and we felt it. The steps seemed to go on forever but eventually we made it to the look out where we briefly rested before pushing on to the summit and the excellent views. The way down was much easier of course. The water wasn’t any warmer when we waded the dinghy back out. The rest of the day was spent reading and relaxing. Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be able to rendezvous with the Bamboozles so that will have to wait until next year. We plan to just hang off the hook for the weekend before heading up the river to the Town Basin on Monday. Yesterday was pretty much filled with fixing the water maker and eating well. I started the morning with cornflakes – the Kelloggs kind. You can get them in Fiji but they’re really expensive so we skipped them. Now we’re back in New Zealand they’re back on the breakfast table. Next we tackled the water maker. I can’t replace the end cap to the high pressure tube without removing the water maker from it’s mount. This is a two person job and very awkward requiring arms to be bent around all sorts of corners to reach almost untouchable nuts and bolts. By the end of the morning we had the unit off and the end cap replaced. I did have to hire the car again to get some plumbers compound to prevent a leak from a compression joint. But by lunchtime we had a successful test. Lunch was smoked salmon and brie on some delicious whole grain bread. Heaven. After lunch we decided to go for a brief walk around the development here before returning to the water maker to remount it into it’s proper position. That took some more swearing and cursing and retrieving dropped items from the bilge but we made it. Job done. I did manage to get confirmation from Spectra that the new end caps were unlikely to fail so spares are not required. Our evening meal was fillet steaks with portobello mushrooms and asparagus. And red wine of course. We treated ourselves. |
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