In last month’s edition of Boating New Zealand, we wrote that we spent Christmas Day on secluded Beehive Island, a little south-west of Kawau Island. There is something magical about experiencing a part of the world accessible to so few other people.
As planned, we returned home to Cambridge between Christmas and New Year to work, hoping to head out into the Gulf again for the New Year’s holiday.
As I write in mid-January, I can say with honesty that January so far has been truly a mensis horribilis for weather! By the time we were returning to Whangaparaoa for our New Year’s excursion, the weather forecast was telling stories of wild winds