Day 5 – 1 December 2018 – Bay of Islands, NZ

Well the decision to take the tender or not was decided by the ocean and the Captain. There was too big a swell, which made the tendering process unsafe, so the ship left the Bay and headed out into the Southern Pacific Ocean for the day. BTW, The Bay of Islands is actually a submerged valley and the islands (around 144 of them) are all that remain of the mountain tops.

So once again another lazy day, doing nothing much.

Just as well we did pop up to dinner last night, they had roast duck, which Mum thoroughly enjoyed. We had a game of Tantrix when back on our balcony which was fun, Mum won it.

We have a coach trip tomorrow in Auckland, so hoping the weather improves enough so we can see something, so far all we’ve seen of NZ was hidden under low cloud or fog. Lol.

We did manage to find the back of the ship after dinner, just kept walking to the back of the Windjammer.