Road to the Sea

So we committed: leave the boat in New Zealand, run back to the USA again.

We were back in the Bay of Islands with a weather window developing on the forecast, so we told ourselves.

We made a break for it while the weather was playing nice.

We ended up staying two months at Town Basin.

Our past month has been one of ease, at least by cruising standards.

That’s about the worst of it.

I wake up at odd hours sometimes.

We were still on Great Barrier Island as the final week of March rolled in, holding onto a bit of hope that the weather might give us a window to leave the greater Port Fitzroy area—maybe even circumnavigate the island.

The second half of March picked up right where the first left off—two days of wind, two days of calm, and then right back to wind again.

After a much-needed morning of sleep, we got straight back to it.