The Happy Wanderers of New Zealand!

Hi Everyone from New Zealand,

Well it seems like we are just wandering around New Zealand with no particular agenda. We are losing concept of time and don't know what day it is. We stay at a place until we get tired of it, then move on. We worked our way down the New Zealand coast from Bay of Islands to the Great Barrier Island before going to Auckland. Auckland is a medium sized city as far as population, but coveres a huge area. We have met locals who have opened their homes and lives to us. Very friendly all around. Or as they would say, "spot on". The boat is still behaving wonderfully. We had some minor factory warrantee items fixed last week and we are currently anchored at Waiheke Island, which is about 15 miles from Auckland, yet seems a million miles because of its quaint and lovely remoteness. The ferry does come here to transport some of the 8 thousand residents to work in Auckland, Our very vague plans are to hang around here, or go to Coromandel, Mercury Islands or down to the Bay of Plenty before coming back to Auckland to meet Tom and Merrie Hanson the first week of March, where they will stop off a few hours on their way to Australia before coming back to Auckland to join us.

We usually can find an email cafe in the small communities ashore, but when anchored out in remote coves, we use sailmail, so send us a note to let us know how you folks are doing and we will try to reply, even if it is a very short "sailmail".

Cheers,

Dan and Carol aboard Caprice