Typical view out Bodhran’s aft port on a less than spectacular Bay of Islands day:

So John called me out. I was complaining about the weather in the last post and just put beautiful sunny pics on the blog. Well here’s some less sunny ones:

Scenes like this:

lead to scenes like this:

But all that’s behind us now. The weather has changed. It’s sunny and beautiful right now. The wind is going to start building out of the SW on Friday night and we’re scheduled to clear customs at 9:00am Saturday morning. Marisa got off the boat this afternoon and will be heading back to the South Island. The trip up to Lautoka, Fiji is a bit over 1000nm. Normally Bodhran averages 118 miles a day in the trades, but with the variable wind patterns crossing the horse latitudes to get up north, it’ll probably take us 12 days or so to get up there. I’ll be sure and get an email off to everyone once we make port.

Our intrepid sailors overlooking Russell refusing to pose when prompted to: