A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
[password] seeker14
[position] 20 42S 166 27E
[weather] 15 - 17 knots E. 1014.0mb rising. 100% cloud cover. Steady rain.
[status] Anchored at Ouvea. Steve has joined the team so now we are 3. Starting to look for a weather window for the passage back to NZ, sometime after 15 Oct.
All well on board. Cheers, David, Grete and Steve
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[password] beavis
[position] 24 01S 153 33E
[status] 75 miles to go - in the home stretch! Still sailing with a favorable current helping to keep our speed up to 5 knots. Excellent passage - wish they were all this good!
[weather] wind 7 ESE, swell 1/2 meter, overcast, 1014 baro[END]
subj: Tusi 2
[password] Tusi9333
[position] 29 44.000S 174 05.000E
[weather] 13-15 knot SW 100% cloud baro 1020mb and dropping
[status] Sailing on tack to SSE. Vixen 7 eight miles to the SW of Tusi 2. 473nm to Marsden Cove.
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[password] montague
[weather] se 10 knots swell s 1m 100%cloud
[status] all is well onboard
position: 26 33 S 173 18 E
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[password] 1991dfc
[position] 31 48s 171 39e
[status] all is well on board, 239 miles from Opua, great sailing from 8am
yesterday until 5am today but wind has now died, motor sailing again
[speed] 4.5 knts
[heading] 148T
[weather] 6 knts from SSE 20% cloud cover baro 1021 and rising[END]
There is a loop walk on an informal track that takes you around the peninsula along beautiful beaches and a bit of rocky coast, across farmland past wetlands full of native birds and through regenerating native bush. Look out for the rare pateke/brown teal - a small brown endemic duck, a number of which can be seen in the main wetland pond. We saw variable oyster catchers and endangered dotterel on the long inner beach, and pied stilts, heaps of paradise shelduck, pukeko, black swans and shags, The track is about 4.5km long and takes approximately 1.5 - 2 hours.
