April 7, 2016
Our next course took us out of Hallam Cove, across the big cul-de-sac of Fitzroy Bay, and into an area called the Tennyson Inlet.
The Tennyson Inlet is a large, deep branch off the Tawhitinui Reach, about five miles long. It came highly recommended by the locals, the one “must do” in the Pelorus Sounds. Looking down the Tennyson Inlet, we were happy to see it looked green and forested, the sort of scenery we’d been hoping to find in this area.
The first part of the inlet is wide but divided by three islands in its middle. Further on, it narrows into a neck leading down to two deep bays, while off to the side, another channel leads into a wider bay. This general area is known as World’s End.
The map below shows where we started in Hallam Cove, and where we ended up: World’s End and Ngawhakawhiti Bay. (You can zoom in and out to get a better look.)
As we approached Word’s End, I was struck by the overlapping mountains covered with natural vegetation—no pine farms here.
The narrowness and the towering green mountains of Tuna and Te Mako Bays were pretty spectacular, but aside from private moorings there’s little in the way of protected anchorages there (at least from the northerly winds we were expecting overnight).
Our destination was Ngawhakawhiti Bay (yes, that’s really how it’s spelled). We made a left turn into the bay.–Cyndi
