December 21, 2020
Now that we have a drone, we’ll probably post a lot more about even mundane anchorages as the aerial shots make every place look amazing. That’s the case here. It was a good enough anchorage, though a little rolly, and it was pretty enough from the water, but from the air, it looked amazing.
Please click on the images below and scroll through them to enjoy the full majesty of this little Mavic Air 2 drone’s pictures.
I think the roll probably came from the endless parade of boats passing buy in the distance. We were there on a Saturday in the summer. Maybe it would be better on a weekday. The holding was good and we had the bay to ourselves when we first arrived. A couple hours later there were three other boats, one of which was anchored in the typical Kiwi fashion: way too close to us!
With the ever-increasing number of cruisers with drones and the great pictures and video from those drones on the net, I think we need to take this as a lesson. Maybe there should be a warning label that says:
“The view form the air makes all locations appear ten times prettier than they actually are.”
I don’t mean to make this sound like it wasn’t a pretty anchorage because it was. Would I recommend it to a close friend that had only one week to cruse New Zealand? Absolutely not.
Here’s exactly where we’re talking about. (You can move around in the map below and zoom in and out.)
-Rich
