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[status]Here are the latest goings on from Ambler .
2 days spent in Westhaven Marina in Downtown Auckland along with the other 2,400 boats...
Jim holed up in the library on WiFi ( forward planning)while I cleaned up boat and Graham did Chandlery shopping ( more fun cleaning the boat than doing that genre of shopping)
Discovered Cafe Hanoi for dinner .
We sadly farewelled our poet and experienced sailor Graham and headed North to another stunning island called Kawau.
Went ashore to Mansion House whose owner in the 1860?s shipped all sorts of plants and trees from around the world for his garden. Impressive to say the least. I suspect he had a lot of time to garden because his wife had her eye turned by a young sailor and ran off to Rio de Janeiro .
Today was a 12 hour sail to Bland Bay ( nothing bland about this beauty spot)
It took us slightly longer than expected because while the skipper slept I managed to take us off course !!!!
Enough of my rantings

It is with great good fortune we made it here at all
What brought us to this moment? Can you now recall?
And can we take full credit for being here tonight
We started on this journey with the absence of insight
With an appetite for knowledge for stimulus and love
The rest has been a process of didactic push and shove
We recoil from the painful and we crave a life of ease
We hasten for a tablet at the first sign of a sneeze
Our life is a deep mystery, why are we here at all
What is our life?s purpose and why is it so cruel
Perhaps the only purpose is to navigate a course
To shine a light for others and eliminate remorse
To tread so very lightly and not squander a resource
And to focus our minds inward on what our senses feel
Not open up the floodgates to the thoughts that are not real
To build a human network to savour and to nourish
And to see that every single one of us can have a chance to flourish
Poet (now safely arrived home in Port Lincoln)

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