Friday, March 29: Two bursts of rain in the night, overcast during the day, improving in the later afternoon
Kayaking: 12.4 km
Tramping: 1.0 km
Swimming: 400 m
Motukawanui Hut
Apparently everyone snored last night, but the spear fishermen were very quiet when leaving, and we didn’t get up until 7:30.
Breakfast was eggs and bacon on toast followed by the usual fruit salad. The weather was apparently not conducive to a circumnavigation so the plan was to stick to the west coast and try our hands at paddling through channels and into caves so that the helmets came on. Very beautiful, steep coast, caves and channels galore with the tide just returning from low. At one beach we stopped for a cup of tea and a biscuit, and a short time later we stopped fairly close to the north end of the island and continued up to the top of a hill on foot and returned to have lunch of salami, cheese and coleslaw on bread. Read more…
