Dinner on Ardmachree

While in Whangaroa Harbour, a days sail north of the Bay of Islands, we enjoyed dinner on board with Lance and Christine from 'Kiwi Breeze' and Andy and Irene from a 'Slice of Heaven'.

Japanese Tsunami warning

Shortly after the Tsunami we sent the following email to friends and family....

Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that all is well here in N. Z. Bill and I were up at 4am this morning and had Ardmachree out to sea, into the middle of the Bay of Islands, a couple of miles out and over 40 meters on the depth sounder. We motored and sailed back and forth until early afternoon and then went into Roberton Island and anchored. It is a wide open bay protected from the ocean swell. There is a high pressure system over the country at the moment and there was no wind so we were able to see the odd different swell come into shore. While anchored at Roberton Island we noticed the tide dropping quickly and then come in again but there has been no damage done. We did have a 5 knot current against us as we went through Kent Passage back to the Kerikeri Marina a spot where there is not usually any current at all. The quake in Japan is 1000 times worse than the quake here in Christchurch and thank goodness we only lost 166 lives, not the thousands they have lost in Japan.