Opua, New Zealand

We are playing the weather waiting game. Many boats left on Saturday and Sunday and are now getting bashed up by two frontal systems that are moving through northern New Zealand right now. It's blowing 25 kts from the north in the marina as we speak and raining hard so I'm not going any where for a day or two.
Monday was a beautiful day and we rented a car and did some more provisioning and took the Admiral for her Mother's day Spa experience, which I'm told she enjoyed and that she is still feeling relaxed. We took a ride over to KeriKeri and had lunch and picked up our new crew Terry from Pahia. He had a long journey from southern California and he is looking forward to going to sea and getting to Fiji, as am I.
The weather is looking good now for Friday morning and even though it's a Friday and the 13th we are going any way. I leave you with some photos of Opua and our ride up to here.

leaving Whangarei at last

Whangarei in the morning fog
Town Dock, Russell
Cape Brett pronounced Cape Britt in new Zealandese

Bay of Islands
Haruru Falls, Pahia
Opua Marina

Downtown Russell

Pleasant anchorage at Whangamumu, old whaling station and waterfall

Anchorage at Tutukaka