December 17, 2013
We decided to go motor around the bay we didn’t end up in: School House Bay. We’d heard it was a good anchorage, but we found it so full of moorings that anchoring was impossible. This turned out to be a good thing because we loved were we ended up (Sunny Bay), but we still wanted to go back and get a better look at School House Bay.
I think the most interesting thing about School House Bay was the houses perched up on the hillside. The whole area feels very private: private piers, private moorings, private houses, etc. I’m sure it’s a wonderful place to live, but there’s not much there for the cruising public.
Our ride back to Sunny Bay got very interesting as we passed a tall ship coming in. It would be a surprising thing to see anyplace else, but after all the unexpected things we’ve seen here in Kawau, we just looked at each other and said, “Of course there’s a tall ship here.” Below are some pictures of the tall ship, Picton Castle. –Cyndi
