Category Archives: New Zealand

Saturday brought our first day trip in the car. Using the free New Zealand road maps on my old Garmin 276C we keyed in a route to Kerikeri. We detoured early on to visit a hardware store where I hoped … Continue reading →

Thursday evening we had our Thanksgiving meal in good company with many of our friends.  Turkey is pretty expensive here in New Zealand so it was good to have a great meal at a pretty good price.  Although it couldn’t … Continue reading →

The main project for Wednesday was to fix the steering gear.  This required three walks to the other end of the boat yard to check on the parts, collect them, and then to go back to have a little taken … Continue reading →

We now have steering. I’ll give a full account of today’s efforts in my daily blog but for now here are some before and after pictures along with some descriptive commentary. Here is a picture of the original starboard pin, … Continue reading →

Around 9:30am we set off to hike the coastal path from Opua to Paihia. We had certainly heard some good recommendations about the hike from others and the weather looked great so off we went. After a short walk along … Continue reading →