April 1, 2013
Today’s good news: it was Easter Monday, the final holiday of the Easter weekend and the day the crowds go home. The bad news: a weather system was coming on Thursday and we wanted to be in Auckland before it arrived. This meant that we, too, needed to get going if we wanted to see some other places on the way to Auckland. The good news: The other places were fairly close by so we didn’t need to rush out of here.
Kawau Island’s other claim to fame is that Lin and Larry Pardey, famous sailors who’ve written numerous books, have chosen to settle here. We asked around and heard they are amiable folks who don’t mind a chat if you run across them. We figured we’d go visit their neighborhood and maybe we’d get lucky and run into them.
We went ashore and asked for directions, but it seems it’s quite a long walk to North Cove. We heard there might be a shortcut; so we decided to attempt it. It was a nice walk, but it only went to a bay over the hill, and we would have ended up in someone’s yard if we’d followed it any further. We gave up at this point, but maybe we’d try again someday.
We arrived back at the boat, had some lunch, then pulled up our anchor and headed to our next destination: the Motuketekete Island Group. –Cyndi
