#44: Stay Overnight on a Sailboat

Just before leaving New Zealand Chris and I had the pleasure of spending a night on our friend Dave's boat, luckily it was also a bucketlist tick for me.
The day started off rainy and cool and we weren't too optimistic on sailing around so we turned on the engines, left the harbor and decided to fish for a bit.

 

Above Chris plays pretend by imagining he's on the show Big Tuna.

The sun finally started to come out a bit so we popped open a bottle of champagne and enjoyed it for a bit.

Having done enough fishing for the morning we pulled up the anchor and went boating on.

We anchored in a bay, had a little swim, saw blue penguins swimming around, and did some more fishing.

Chris caught the only fish of the day!

Since it wasn't enough to feed us all we went ashore on Waiheki Island for dinner, came back in pitch dark and spent the night doing a little more night fishing and playing card games.

We woke up early and watched the sunrise as we sailed  back to Auckland.

Another tick on the Bucket List :) Till next time..

Sailing in Auckland

The "city of sails" as Auckland is sometimes known as can and should be seen from the water. A sailboat, a ferry, a yacht, a kayak, anything you can get your hands on. So far I've tried the ferry and a yacht.. hands down the yacht was lovelier.

 

I got a chance to do a little days worth of sailing (technically yachting as the sails never went up) during my first week in New Zealand (July). Chris sneakily arranged for us to go out on his friends boat as I've never been yachting before. We were whisked away in the morning hours and the surprise was kept from me 'till we got to the dock. The views sailing away from the harbor were beautiful with the Sky Tower poking up above the city.

We anchored off of one of the islands for a quick picnic lunch on the boat and were back on our way to Auckland. We made a loop from where we left to where we came back in so the views coming back into the harbor weren't so bad either.