Gets your heart going to see a bridge that isn't on the charts. This one is being built across the river. We had to go through a very skinny pass between the unfinished sections.
Made it! At the guest dock at Whangarei Town Basin
We got a pile mooring for the first week, then we're moving to a dock.
Not a bad view from our mooring.
Yay! We’re finally here. Gnarly time getting here. 30 knot winds, made just getting out of our slip in Marsden an adventure. Also we’re waaay upriver now. The last bit to get here the water depth went as low as 9 feet and that was at high tide. They are also building a new bridge that will eventually be a drawbridge, but for now it was a very narrow slot between two half bridges that we had to thread through. But we’re here!
Tomorrow, we move from our nice “guest berth” in from of the marina office, down about 150 yards to a “piling mooring”. In other words we will be tied between two pilings in a line with other boats along the bank of the river. The only way off the boat will be by dinghy. The good news is the dinghy dock is only about 30 yards away and our car is parked just up from that. But it will be a new adventure.
Always something new to experience. Hope no one slips!
Hi folks.. We received your blog info from Dos Leos. Sounds like you have had a great time. I am going to be in N.Z. (Nelson) from early Feb. to mid March. If possible I would like to get together somewhere to hear about your adventure.
Richard
Just think of it as the mother ship and its shuttle. And don’t try “space walking”. 🙂
So, you are now at journey’s end. At least this segment. Congratulations. You should be able to put up a plague or sign, or have your name on a wall, for the accomplishment. Something like a South Pacific voyager monument with names inscribed.
What’s the weather like now in your part of the world. The skies have parted here and we are under a deluge of water.